Static Website Hosting, Storage, and Content Delivery on AWS

Even if many modern websites require complex server-side technologies to deliver dynamic content, many organizations still need pretty simple static websites just relying on HTML, CSS and Javascript. Nevertheless, even websites delivering static content need to scale and grant high availability, and a low latency, as the visits grow over time.

In this course, the expert CloudAcademy’s Senior Devops Engineer, Antonio Angelino, will discuss how to set up a static website on the Cloud using only Amazon S3 to store the files, Amazon CloudFront for content delivery, Route 53 to associate a custom domain name to our website, and Amazon Glacier to set up an automatic backup strategy of the website’s files on S3. It’s an effective and low-cost solution that avoids the burden of configuring an EC2 instance with a webserver for a task that is very simple, but still needs good skills to be accomplished proficiently.

Who should follow this course

As a beginner-to-intermediate course, you are expected to have some experience with the basic concepts of website hosting. Also, you should have at least a small experience with the AWS services described in the course, namely S3, CloudFront, Route53 and Glacier. In any case, you should be able to understand the key concepts shown in this course even if you are a newcomer of the Amazon Cloud.