4 steps to setup https on AWS

You want to serve your website with https so that all the transactions on it are secure. There are two domains of your single website:

These domains should point to an ELB inwhich you do the load balancing among EC2 instances serving your website.

Step 1: Create SSL Certificate

You are able to obtain SSL certificates for free by using AWS Certificate Manager Service

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Note that you have to wait for a while before the certificates are issued by Amazon.

Step 2: Create ELB

You should select

Application Load Balancer
Internet facing
Load Balancer Protocol: select both HTTP and HTTPS
Configure Security Settings: Choose an existing certificate from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
Configure Routing: Edit path to /index.html which is the index file of your webserver
Register Targets: add your instance to registered on port 80

After ELB is created, you should have an ELB domain name, copy it into clipboard.

Step 3: Create Hosted Zone with Route53

Go to Route53 service and create two hosted zones:

With each hosted zone, create a record set

Test the newly created record set, you will get the IP address of your domain.

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Step 4: Point your domains to the Route53 record

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