We have a S3 bucket serving a static website, and it's located 'behind' a CloudFront distribution (for SSL access). It uses the www subdomain, and something like https://www.our-domain.com/ works fine.
Now we also want the 'apex' or 'naked' domain to work correctly by redirecting (via a 301 redirect) all requests to that website above. Unfortunately, that does not seem to work.
For the setup, we created another S3 bucket, something like redirect-our-domain-website, and in the properties we enabled static website hosting, selecting to redirect all requests to the target www.our-domain.com.
When we retrieve this latter bucket via the S3 bucket endpoint for static websites, http://redirect-our-domain-website.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com we are being redirected correctly to the intended target www.our-domain.com.
Unfortunately, when creating a CloudFront distribution to also front that 'static website redirector' (again, for SSL), the redirection does not seem to get activated.
The browser result for request on the 'naked' domain https://our-domain.com/ shows that AWS S3 XML document:
<ListBucketResult xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
<Name>redirect-our-domain-website</Name>
<Prefix/>
<Marker/>
<MaxKeys>1000</MaxKeys>
<IsTruncated>false</IsTruncated>
</ListBucketResult>
So, instead of redirecting to the intended target, it shows a ListBucketResult of the S3 bucket of the static website redirector.
I had expected that the S3 static website redirection would redirect the request to the other S3 static website (actually containing the website).
