Prerequisites

Create and validate certificate for your CloudFront distribution.

AWS CloudFront

Navigate to CloudFront > Create Distribution > Web > Get Started

Create Distribution
Origin Domain Name	List of available origins including S3 Buckets and Elastic Load Balancers. Select your S3 Bucket.
Origin ID	G53_CFD_S3-gateway53.com
Restrict Bucket Access	No
Default Cache Behavior Settings
Distribution Settings
Price Class	Use All Edge Locations
Alternate Domain Names (CNAMEs)	Make sure to set one or more Alternate Domain Names, otherwise it won't be listed on the target combo for Route53 Alias. The name of your Amazon Route 53 hosted zone (such as example.com) must match an alternate domain name in the CloudFront distribution.
SSL Certificate	Click on 'Custom SSL Certificate (example.com)' and select your certificate from the provided list.
Default Root Object	index.html or whatever your root object name is

Click on 'Create Distribution'.
It can take some time to create your distribution.

Create Behavior Settings

Navigate to CloudFront > select your distribution by clicking on the ID.
Click on the 'Behaviors' tab.
Select the existing Behavior with Path Pattern: Default(*) and click 'Edit'.

Create Behavior Settings
Viewer Protocol Policy	Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

Click 'Yes, Edit'