Redirecting route53 purchased domain to s3 bucket?

Question

I've just purchased a domain from Route 53 and created corresponding buckets in AWS s3. I've followed the instructions from: Example: Setting Up a Static Website Using a Custom Domain .

Let's say my custom domain is called customdomain.com .

I've created customdomain.com and www.customdomain.com buckets in s3 and allowed static website hosting on customdomain.com and enabled redirecting from www.customdomain.com to the customdomain.com bucket.

When I enter the endpoint for customdomain.com it works just fine, meaning my bucket policies are working correctly.

Next, in Route 53, I've set up Hosted Zone for customdomain.com .
I've also created a record set in that hosted zone with the name:
customdomain.com , type A, aliasing to customdomain.com's endpoint (which I chose from the dropdown menu). I left everything else as default then saved it. I added the record for www.customdomain.com but had it alias to customdomain.com

When I try to access customdomain.com, Chrome states that the site can't be reached.

Did I miss a step somewhere or does it take time for my site to be up due to DNS propagation or something?

Answer 1

Fixed it.

Apparently, the domain's name servers weren't the same as my hosted zone's name servers