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by Benjamin_Dobell 3720 days ago
> The name of the bucket used for Transfer Acceleration must be DNS-compliant and must not contain periods (".").

Source: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/transfer-acce...

> The bucket names must match the names of the website that you are hosting. For example, to host your example.com website on Amazon S3, you would create a bucket named example.com.

Source: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosti...

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Looks like they don't want you replacing CloudFront with Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration - which is a royal pain for some of my use cases (internal facing websites that don't need a full CDN).
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re 3719 days ago
S3 Website Hosting is distinct from CloudFront; you can create a CloudFront distribution backed by a bucket with any name. You can combine the two, but it isn't required.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Developer...

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website...

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EwanToo 3719 days ago
I think it's simply wildcard SSL getting in the way, if you put a . in the bucket name, the DNS record becomes a.b.c.s3-xxxx.amazonaws.com

The wildcard SSL certificate they use only matches the c.s3-xxxx.amazonaws.com part of the sub domain

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