We are going to take a look at deploying our serverless application frontend to Amazon S3. Then we will deploy our frontend to edge locations on CloudFront. Last but not least, we will benchmark the latency of our frontend.
So let's get started!
Create an S3 bucket named sls-frontend in the S3 dashboard on the AWS Management Console. To upload data to the bucket, click on the Upload button and drag your local web directory into the bucket:
As you can see from the previous screenshot, once the files are uploaded, we need to specify that our bucket is used for static website hosting, so we enable website hosting, set it as an index HTML document, and click on Save:
We also need to get some permissions so that our website will be accessible from the internet and other users will be able to access it. We specify that S3:GetObject...