Host Your Personal Website on AWS for (Almost) Free — With S3 and CloudFront
The article provides a guide on how to host a personal website using AWS services S3 and CloudFront. It emphasizes the benefits of this approach, including low costs, global speed, and zero server maintenance. The step-by-step instructions cover creating an S3 bucket, uploading files, enabling static website hosting, and setting up a CloudFront distribution.
- ▪Using Amazon S3 and CloudFront allows for hosting a static website with minimal costs.
- ▪CloudFront caches content at over 400 edge locations, ensuring fast loading times globally.
- ▪The guide emphasizes security by keeping the S3 bucket private and allowing access only through CloudFront.
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