SSL Issue - Debugging ssl issue between laravel and Cloudfront - laravel

Question

I'm trying to set up SSL certs for my laravel API so it can connect to my front end project. I'm hosting my server on aws EC2 so Ive been trying to use cloudfront and acm. I get a 502 error when trying to access my api routes using my DNS. In the error code cloud front sends a link and it tells me to use an open ssl command to determine if cloudfront can establish a connection. the command is
openssl s_client –connect domainname:443 –servername domainname
Once I add that with my domain name I get this response.
CONNECTED(00000003)
140306801927832:error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure:s23_clnt.c:769:
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no peer certificate available
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No client certificate CA names sent
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SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 326 bytes
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New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
Protocol : TLSv1.2
Cipher : 0000
Session-ID:
Session-ID-ctx:
Master-Key:
Key-Arg : None
PSK identity: None
PSK identity hint: None
SRP username: None
Start Time: 1536682031
Timeout : 300 (sec)
Verify return code: 0 (ok)
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Im not really sure where to go from here because this is my first time trying to set up ssl.