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| | coornail.net
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| | Cloudfront enables you to host your static website via s3. You should set your root object to index.html to rewrite https://yourdomainname.com to https://yourdomainname.com/index.html for cleaner urls. However you might run into an issue of having subdirectories in your s3 bucket that you want to do the same for (for example on hosting a hugo blog). Unfortunately Cloudfront doesnt support this by default.
| | www.bennadel.com
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| | Ben Nadel demonstrates how to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) software developer's kit (SDK) to generate pre-signed S3 URLs with path-style access rather than virtual-hosted-style access.
| | philiplaine.com
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| | There are a bunch of blog posts and tutorials out there showing how to setup a static website on AWS. They all offer the same general solution with maybe some caveat. Route53 for DNS, CloudFront as a CDN to speed up content delivery, S3 to store the content, and ACM as a certificate provider. A good place to start off at when embarking on a new project is AWS own reference documentation. AWS static website project is a great example of this, and it will probably do a better job conveying the required information that I ever will. The only thing I think the example lacks is setting up it certificates for CloudFront. That was the source of most of my problems when setting up my static website, the very one you are on right now. There are many Stack Overflow qu...
| | willhaley.com
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| My guide is largely based on the Deploying to Amazon S3 guide from Semaphore, but with some pre-requisite steps and fine-tuning to S3. Switching your DNS provider for your domain to Amazon's Route 53 may be a requirement. Depending on your DNS provider, your DNS configuration, and your willingness to jump through hoops like setting up a reverse proxy on another server, you may be forced to transfer your domain. You should absolutely read the DNS and hosting section of Amazon's Static Website Using a Custom Domain guide before proceeding.