Static Website Hosting

Amazon S3 allows us to host a static website. Static HTML pages can be deployed on S3 and using the scripting language (such as JavaScript) we can make it a dynamic website. For hosting, we need to configure the bucket website configuration and map our domain name to redirect the request to the Amazon S3 bucket.

Let's see how we can host a static website on Amazon S3.

AWS Management Console

Let's see how to host a static website on Amazon S3:

1. Create the S3 bucket and grant public access: Create a bucket with the name www.blog.tweakings3.com and grant Public permissions so that anonymous users can access the HTML files:

Figure 4.18: Create Bucket (www.blog.tweakings3.com)

2. Upload the HTML file: Upload index.html file to bucket www.blog.tweakings3.com.
3. Edit the Bucket permission: Go to the Bucket's Permissiontab and click on Bucket Policy.

Figure 4.19: Bucket Policy

Add the following policy and click on Save:

{ 
   "Version": "2012-10-17", 
   "Statement": [{ 
      "Sid": "AddPerm...