Creating a static website in 5 minutes using S3 on AWS

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    Creating a static website in 5 minutes using S3 on AWS
• Cloud platform: AWS • Tools used: Atom (Text editor), S3 (AWS) • Languages: Html

The following gist is part of my AWS Solution Architect - Associate exam preparation.

It can help you as a web entrepreneur, web bloggers, to deploy a static website very quickly using AWS.

Steps

1. Create a bucket on S3 named mywebsitebucket054485

2. Change the number since you must have a unique bucket name on S3)

3. Create three files, index.html, error.html, about.html

4. Upload the files in the S3 bucket

Solution architecture

Bucket creation

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Files upload on S3 bucket

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Go to S3  > select your bucket > Edit Public Acess Settings > unselect "Block all public access" > Save > Confirm


Click on your bucket > select your 3 files > click on Actions > Make public


Click on Properties > Static Website Properties > select "Use this bucket to host a website" > Index document: type index.html > Error document: type error404.html


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Click on Static Website Hosting to get the endpoint url.

There you go! Your website is online, you can visit it using the provided endpoint url.


   Visit my S3 static website
  
Author

Isaac Arnault - AWS Cloud series - Related tags: #S3 #Bucket #StaticWebsite


## about.html.md

      
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<html>
<h1>About</h1>
<h2><a href="/index.html" target="_blank">Back to home</a></h2>
<p>
A static website hosted on AWS. <br>
You can deploy a similar website for free in about 5 minutes.<br>
<a href="https://github.com/isaacarnault/aws-s3-static-website" target="_blank">Instructions</a>. <br>
<b>Good luck!</b>
</html>

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<html>
<h1>404</h1>
<h2>Page not found</h2>
<p>
The page you are trying to access does not exist.
</p>
</html>

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## index.html.md

      
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<html>
<h1>My S3 static website</h1>
<img src="https://bit.ly/33ovy7X" alt="Beerus Sama">
</html>

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## LICENSE
MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019 Isaac Arnault

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