Common S3 Static Website Problems

There are a bunch of blog posts and tutorials out there showing how to setup a static website on AWS. They all offer the same general solution with maybe some caveat. Route53 for DNS, CloudFront as a CDN to speed up content delivery, S3 to store the content, and ACM as a certificate provider. A good place to start off at when embarking on a new project is AWS own reference documentation. AWS static website project is a great example of this, and it will probably do a better job conveying the required information that I ever will. The only thing I think the example lacks is setting up it certificates for CloudFront. That was the source of most of my problems when setting up my static website, the very one you are on right now. There are many Stack Overflow questions and additional blog posts trying to solve these issues, but they are either just partially correct or outdated. That is why I am going to highlight some common issues rather than a tutorial, because a better one already exists.