My domain record in Route 53 that points to an Amazon S3 bucket or static website is not resolving

Question

Fllowing the following tutorial:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/website-hosting-custom-domain-walkthrough.html

I registered a domain using AWS, my domain is visas-easy.com.
After that, I created an S3 bucket(visas-easy.com) static website and another bucket for the subdomain(www.visas-easy.com).

S3 bucket works fine with url: http://visas-easy.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/

Then I created a hosted zone for both S3:

Record name   Type   Routing policy   Differentiator   Value/Route traffic to

visas-easy.com	A	Simple	-	s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com.

visas-easy.com	NS	Simple	-	ns-1171.awsdns-18.org. ns-627.awsdns-14.net. ns-375.awsdns-46.com. ns-1618.awsdns-10.co.uk.

www.visas-easy.com	A	Simple	-	s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com.

When I try to go to the site(http://visas-easy.com, www.visas-easy.com, http://www.visas-easy.com, visas-easy.com), result is:

This site can’t be reached
Check if there is a typo in www.visas-easy.com.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

I deleted my browser cache and tried 3 different browsers (edge, safari, chrome) with the same result.

Answer

Were you able to find a solution to this problem? I am experiencing the same issue and have not found a solution yet. Thank you!

Answer

I assume that you have created a public hosted zone on Route 53. You need to create an alias record that points to your S3 bucket .
Summary of the required actions: 
- Enter the domain name that you want to use to route traffic to your S3 bucket. The default value is the name of the hosted zone.
- Choose Alias to S3 website endpoint, then choose the Region that the endpoint is from.
- Choose the bucket that has the same name that you specified for Record name. The list includes a bucket only if the bucket meets the following requirements:

The name of the bucket is the same as the name of the record that you're creating.

The bucket is configured as a website endpoint.

The bucket was created by the current AWS account.

- Record type : Choose A – IPv4 address.
- Evaluate target health

Can you confirm you did all these steps?

My domain record in Route 53 that points to an Amazon S3 bucket or static website is not resolving

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