I was always under the impression that the Amazon AWS S3 service could be used only for storing any type of media content on the cloud. For e.g. images, JS, CSS, video files, etc.
But what surprised me is that we can host an entire static web site on an Amazon S3 bucket. No need to use a web server on an EC2 instance. Caveat Emptor: S3 does not support dynamic web sites.
The following links are handy to understand how to configure a S3 bucket for static web hosting. You can also pick up a good domain name for your static site using the domain name services provided by Amazon’s “Route 53″ DNS service. Amazon also offers a Content Delivery Network service(CloudFront CDN) that replicates content across Amazon’s network of global edge locations. So the S3 bucket would serve as the origin server and the CDN would provide the edge servers.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosting.html
http://chadthompson.me/2013/05/06/static-web-hosting-with-amazon-s3/
http://www.labnol.org/internet/web-hosting-with-amazon-s3/18742/
http://www.labnol.org/internet/lower-amazon-s3-bill-improve-website-loading-time/5193/
But what surprised me is that we can host an entire static web site on an Amazon S3 bucket. No need to use a web server on an EC2 instance. Caveat Emptor: S3 does not support dynamic web sites.
The following links are handy to understand how to configure a S3 bucket for static web hosting. You can also pick up a good domain name for your static site using the domain name services provided by Amazon’s “Route 53″ DNS service. Amazon also offers a Content Delivery Network service(CloudFront CDN) that replicates content across Amazon’s network of global edge locations. So the S3 bucket would serve as the origin server and the CDN would provide the edge servers.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosting.html
http://chadthompson.me/2013/05/06/static-web-hosting-with-amazon-s3/
http://www.labnol.org/internet/web-hosting-with-amazon-s3/18742/
http://www.labnol.org/internet/lower-amazon-s3-bill-improve-website-loading-time/5193/
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