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Why does my S3 static website “Access Denied” only in certain areas?

I created a CloudFront distribution to serve a static website. The website works perfectly where I am, and I have had several people attempt to access the website and it works.

When I use a VPN to access the site in other locations the webpage returns “Access Denied”. I configured the bucket policy to allow anonymous get requests and made the bucket public.

I am unsure why it cannot be accessed in some areas.

I do not have geo-restriction enabled.

Solution

  • To fix this error I pointed the subdomain "www.example.com" to "example.com" in route 53. I then created a new CF distribution for the root name. Prior I had a CF distribution for the both the subdomain and root domain.