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Host a static website on Amazon S3

Host a static website on Amazon S3

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Abiodun Eniola
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Step 1

  • Login to the AWS Console

  • Navigate to the S3 and click Create bucket

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Step 2

  • Give your bucket a unique name

  • Choose a region

  • Select the ACLs disabled (recommended)

  • Turn off block all public access (Note: this is not a good practice, but for this tutorial, we will turn it off

  • Disable bucket versioning ( we don't need it for now)

  • Enable the server-side encryption and choose the Amazon S3-managed keys (SSE-S3) encryption type

  • Leave everything as default and click Create Bucket.

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Step 3

  • Now that our bucket has been created

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  • Click on the bucket we just created.

  • Let's upload our website file to the bucket

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Now that our website file has been uploaded successfully. Let's make a few setting

Step 4

  • Click on the properties tab and scroll down

  • At the Static website hosting option, click edit to change the settings

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  • Enable the static website hosting

  • Select host a static website as the hosting type

  • Input "Index.html" to specify the home or default page of the website.

  • Input "error.html" if you have an error page or leave it (It's optional) and save changes.

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Step 5

  • Click the permission tab, we need to change some settings to enable our website to be accessed publicly

  • Scroll to the bucket policy and click edit

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  • Now let's copy the blow policy and paste it into our text box and replace the bucket name with our own
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "PublicRead",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": "*",
            "Action": [
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:GetObjectVersion"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::bucket-web-app00/*"
        }
    ]
}

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  • Click on save. Our bucket is now public and can be accessed by everyone

Step 6

  • Let's go back to the properties tab

  • Navigate to the static website hosting option

  • Copy the URL or click on the link to access our website

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Viola! Our website is up and running

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Congratulations! We have just successfully hosted our static website on AWS S3 In our next tutorial we will discuss how to make our website secured and using a custom domain

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