How To Host, Secure, and Deliver Static Websites on Amazon Web Services Table of Contents

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How To Host, Secure, and Deliver Static Websites on Amazon Web Services

• Quit Getting Lost In The Sea Of Information
  • Learn AWS By Using It
  • A Brief History Lesson On AWS
  • The Problem To Be Solved While Learning
  • When The Dust Settles
• Getting Setup With AWS
  • Getting Started With AWS
  • 3 Things You Need To Do Before Using Your New Account
  • Configuring Your CLI
  • Other Considerations For New Accounts
• Learn S3 While Cutting Your Hosting Cost To A Dollar
  • The AWS Service You Hear About Most
  • Under A Dollar For Website Hosting
  • Every Bucket Must Have A Name
  • Configuring Your S3 Bucket for Static Website Hosting
  • DNS Records For Your Bucket Urls
  • Uploading Your Static Website
  • Benefits
• Deliver To The World Instantly & Securely Using CloudFront
  • CloudFront Content Delivery Network
  • Creating The Static Website Distribution
  • Updating DNS Records
  • Optimize The Distribution For Caching
  • Busting The Cache via Invalidations
  • Leveraging Free SSL with CloudFront
  • Secure Low Latency Delivery via CloudFront
• Enhancing The Security of Our Static Website with Web Application Firewall
  • AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Creating Our Web Application Firewall
  • Bait Bad Bots With A Honeypot API
  • Creating Our Bad Bot Bait
  • Create A Lambda Function For Updating Our WAF Condition
  • Programming The Lambda Function
  • Configure The Honeypot In API Gateway
  • Adding Our API Origin To CloudFront
  • The Benefits Of AWS WAF
• Optimizing Our Use Case and Extending Our Learning
  • Extending Our Learning
  • Building A Serverless Contact Form
  • Configure SES To Send Email To Ourselves
  • Creating The Role Our Lambda Function Needs To Send Email
  • Leveraging Lambda To Process Our Serverless Contact Form Model
  • Testing Our API Gateway Endpoint
  • Integrating Our Serverless Contact Form Into Our Static Website
  • Leveraging AWS To Iterate Quickly
• Where To Go From Here
  • How We Got To Here
  • More Ins and Outs Of S3
    • S3 Can Store Lots Of Data
    • Listing Objects In A Bucket Is Expensive
  • Doing More With Cloudfront
    • Dynamic Content and Extensibility
  • Certificates For Everyone With ACM
  • WAF For The World (FTW)
  • Lambda, Lambda, Lambda
    • The Limitations Of Lambda
  • The Advantages We Have Gained
  • Closing Things Out