Host static web site in Amazon S3 without using Amazon route 53
amazon-s3, amazon-web-services
Solution
You can, but it wont work very well. You would need to create a CNAME record to map to the endpoint, which you can't use for apex records. You would need some other way of forwarding traffic from the apex to presumably `www.domain.com`.
S3, Cloudfront either a set of IPs or Geo-DNS to determine which IP address will serve a given request. This is not something you can efficiently replicate in your own DNS.
The cost of Route53 is pretty low, depending on traffic, it could hit be a $1 or less per month.
Problem
I tried to publish a static website in Amazon S3 and after following all the steps I managed to do it, but after a few minutes it didn't work anymore. I didn't use Amazon Route 53, I just created a CNAME file with my domain provider (http://my.dot.tk/cgi-bin/login01.taloha). I followed the IP by host my endpoint but I saw it changes white often. I don't want to use Route 53 since is not free, unlike the AWS free usage Tier. Any clues? May it be Amazon firewall?