AWS EC2 instance doesn't response using HTTPS

Question

I have AWS EC2 instance that sends the response using HTTP. The URL link is as below:

http://ec2-18-233-225-132.compute-1.amazonaws.com:3030/api/status

This works fine with the. S3 bucket after the deployment, but, the Cloudfront blocks request that are not comes using HTTPS. How do I make sure that HTTPS also work with this URL:

https://ec2-18-233-225-132.compute-1.amazonaws.com:3030/api/status

Thanks.

Answer 1

For cloudfront https handling: Create certificate in ACM. Update cloudfront distribution to use that certificate and set ssl/TLS. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/cnames-and-https-procedures.html#cnames-and-https-updating-cloudfront

for EC2 https handling: You need to open HTTPS port (443). To do that, you go to https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/ and click on the Security Groups link on the left, then create a new security group with also HTTPS available. Then, just update the security group of the instance.

After these steps, if it's still not working it is an application problem.