I Spent Three Hours Fighting CloudFront. Here's What I Actually Learned.

Today was supposed to be simple.

I'm working through the Cloud Resume Challenge, a project that has you build a resume site on AWS using S3, CloudFront, Lambda, DynamoDB, and a handful of other services, wired together by hand. The point isn't the resume. The point is proving you can actually use the infrastructure, not just talk about it.

Stage one: static site on S3. Done. Stage two: CloudFront with HTTPS.

Three hours later, I was staring at the same error message for the sixth time.

What Went Wrong