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DevOps: How to Host a Simple Static Website on AWS S3

Written by Adrian Dratwicki | Mar 29, 2019 6:44:00 AM

If you’re thinking of hosting a website, you typically have two options:

  1. buy a virtual server and manage it yourself,
  2. use the services of a hosting company.

The latter solution is one of the simplest and most popular when it comes to setting up websites, since it makes them easy to manage and cheap to maintain.

Using a hosting company usually comes down to getting access to an FTP server or panel, where you can upload the files necessary for your site to work. The rest is handled by your hosting service provider.

But what if I told you there was a third way? An even better solution for static websites?

In this article, I’ll show you how to host your website on AWS S3. I’ll also tell you how using AWS S3 benefitted one of our clients.