I think you can specify index documents in your S3 bucket config and Cloudfront will use them. A good write up: http://www.michaelgallego.fr/blog/2013/08/27/sta

I think you can specify index documents in your S3 bucket config and Cloudfront will use them. A good write up: http://www.michaelgallego.fr/blog/2013/08/27/static-website-on-s3-cloudfront-and-route-53-the-right-way/ http://www.michaelgallego.fr/blog/2013/08/27/static-website-... I am unsure about end-to-end encryption for transfer to the edge nodes or encryption at rest. Maybe someone with a better understanding of Cloudfront and IAM can help out.