How to forward http request to https in Amazon Route53?

Question

I have a subdomain in Amazon Route53. Let\'s say secure.example.com

If requests come like https://secure.example.com it is ok but I would like to force

Answer 1

2019 +

The @Jamaurice Holt solution led me to the way but was a bit short

Classic Load Balancer

This solution only work with application load balancer, not classic load balancer, but you can migrate to use a more recent app balancer in EC2 > Load balancers > your load balancer > migrate

Application Load Balancer

On the console go to EC2 > Load balancers > your load balancer > listeners

Here you should have 2 rules: HTTP : 80 and HTTPS : 443

You just have to:

• edit the HTTP : 80 rule

• remove the forward rule and add a redirect rule to port 443

• save and you should see something like: