How to configure S3 domain alias on web with cloudflare

We’re using S3 as a storage for releases of Skipper (originally ORM Designer). It’s a good and fast solution, but links to downloads aren’t so pretty:

but what we want is something like this :

The solution is pretty simply. The only necessary thing is to create bucket on S3 with the same name link domain where the downloads will be available:

S3 bucket

and then configure new CNAME in cloudflare:

S3 alias

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type: CNAME
name: downloads.skipper18.com
alias: downloads.skipper18.com.s3.amazonaws.com

And that’s all. Domain should be ready within fews seconds.

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