S3 Static Website Hosting

Nov 5, 2022

• Aws
• S3
• Hosting

• S3

• Normally, you’d use AWS S3 APIs to access S3
• However, when S3 Static Website Hosting is enabled, you can access S3 via standard HTTP
  • This allows you to host almost anything
• When enabling, you must set an Index (default page) and Error (default, when something goes wrong) HTML document
• When enabled, a Website Endpoint is created. This name is automatically generated.
• Custom Domain via R53 - Bucket Name matters in this case, it needs to match domain name

• Hosting static media for your websites to take pressure off of your compute service
• Cheaper for storage and delivery of static assets

• When scheduled maintenance is happening, and your server is down, customers can be pointed at an out of band page until the server is back up

• When S3 Static Website Hosting is enabled, you’re charged a certain amount for requests