This a low cost, secure and HA solution that you may use to host your static website . For the demo purposes i am using the domain cloudsandbox.xyz
- The first step is to create a S3 bucket
- The next step is to Enable Static Web Hosting and fill the name of the index document
- Next under permissions, we untick the box Block all public access and confirm the change
- Once done, we move to the next step where we have to edit the S3 Bucket policy. Use the following code and edit Line 12 to reflect your bucket name
- Then you can upload your index file, in our case demo.html
- The next step is to create a Hosted Zone in Route53, if you don’t have one already
- When the hosting zone has been created, you can add an A Record to point to your S3 bucket (if Cloudfront will be used for HTTPS, there are a few more steps required and we are to cover that in another post)
- You can now see that the A record has been created
All you have to do now, is type the URL in our case http://cloudsandbox.xyz/ and we can see our page (S3 hosting in this case using HTTP)
For an HTTPS connection you need to create a Public Certificate using ACM and configure CloudFront (we are going to cover that later, in another post)
