Introduction
Amazon S3 is not only storing objects on buckets and accessing them over the Internet, but is also available as a static website with client-side techniques such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which does not require server-side scripts such as ASP.NET, PHP, or JSP.
The benefits of hosting a static website on Amazon S3 are as follows:
- Low cost: The charges are data storing and data transfer fees
- Reliable routing: This allows you to map a custom domain and route customers to your website with Route53
- Low latency: This delivers the content from the closest location to the customer by caching the content in the edge location over the world with CloudFront
- Low maintenance: Amazon S3 consists of an automatic self-hearing infrastructure and is designed with 99.999999999 percent durability and 99.99 percent availability of objects over a given year by synchronously storing your data across multiple facilities