Moving from AWS to Cloudflare

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Intro

My protfolio website is hosted on AWS with S3 bucket to store the files, AWS Route 53 to manage the domain, and AWS Amplify to host the app (as they said, serverless is the best). But, it’s getting a little bit pricey for static website, so I want to move it to be managed by CloudFlare.

TL;DR

  1. In Route 53 checking that the “Transfer Lock” is set to off
  2. Getting the code from “Transfer out” -> “Transfer to another registrar”
  3. Registrar the AWS domain in CloudFlare
  4. Adding the CloudFlare nameservers in AWS Route 53
  5. Delete the old name servers
  6. Waiting to CloudFlare to active the domain
  7. Deleting all AWS services except Route 53

AWS

It’s really easy to be honest. Need to check that “Transfer Lock” is set to Off and changes the Name Servers to CloudFlare’s ones and deleting the AWS ones. The CloudFlare name servers:

andy.ns.cloudflare.com
karina.ns.cloudflare.com

Under “Transfer out” –> “Transfer to another registrar” get the code and save it.

CloudFlare

Under Domain Registration there is an option to Transfer Domains NOTE: it’s cost around 10$ to move it because they want you to buy another year to the domain.

Domain Transfer

Now, this is the step when we need the code:

Domain Transfer-2

The next 2 images just shows that everything is done and it’s re-registrar the domain

Domain Transfer-3

I’m for now waiting to the transfer to happen. I will update :-)

Domain Transfer-4