Unfortunately, Amazon S3 does not support HTTPS connections, it only supports HTTP. We have set the Route 53 record sets to use a CloudFront distribution, but we haven't enabled support to HTTPS in CloudFront yet.
But why should we support HTTPS? There are many reasons nowadays. Let's list some of them:
- We are building an online store. We need to handle logins and payment transactions. Doing such things without an encrypted connection is not safe. It's too easy to eavesdrop the network and steal sensitive data.
- HTTP/2 is the newest protocol and is much faster than the old HTTP/1.1 version. Currently, all major browsers that support HTTP/2 require HTTPS. It is not possible to support HTTP/2 over an unencrypted HTTP connection.
- HTTP/2 with encryption is faster than HTTP/1.1 without encryption. Troy Hunt shows an interesting demo at this link: https://www.troyhunt.com/i-wanna-go-fast-https-massive-speed-advantage. In his test, loading a website with hundreds of small files was...