Tag: s3

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:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.skipper18.com/Skipper-3.0.0.1024-Windows-all-32bit.exe

but what we want is something like this :

https://downloads.skipper18.com/Skipper-3.0.0.1094-Windows-all-32bit.exe

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:

and then configure new CNAME in cloudflare:

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

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

External links:

• https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168926-How-do-I-use-CloudFlare-with-Amazon-s-S3-Service-
• http://carltonbale.com/how-to-alias-a-domain-name-or-sub-domain-to-amazon-s3/