Building Static Websites with Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is designed to be a durable, scalable, and readily available cloud-based object storage solution. For archival storage, data backup, and cloud application storage, S3 is a tried-and-tested option. S3 is also an excellent option for hosting static websites. Static websites do not rely on server-side processing like PHP, JSP, and so on; their pages can contain static content and client-side scripting.

You can use a static website as the entry point into your application, especially if there is a public element to your website that is used to advertise products and services. Because you may not be fully aware of the total traffic likely to hit your website, static websites hosted on Amazon S3 are highly scalable and require minimal management overhead, as AWS handles scalability elements in the background.

Once you have enabled static hosting, your S3 bucket will be accessible via a website endpoint URL. This URL can access your...