use case

Hosting a high-performance, secure static website on AWS requires combining ⁠Amazon S3 for storage, ⁠Amazon CloudFront as a Content Delivery Network (CDN), and ⁠Amazon Route 53 for managed DNS. While Amazon S3 has a built-in static website hosting feature, using S3 alone limits you to unencrypted HTTP traffic and slower global speeds. To achieve true high-performance and modern HTTPS compliance, you should keep your S3 bucket entirely private and cache your content globally at CloudFront edge locations.

Here is the sequential, step-by-step blueprint to build this high-performance production architecture. 1. Create a Private S3 Bucket

The S3 bucket acts as the central storage repository for your frontend assets (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images).

Navigate to S3: Open the ⁠Amazon S3 Console and click Create bucket.

Name the bucket: Enter a globally unique name. (If you use Route 53 later, it is a clean practice to match your root domain name, like example.com). Enforce security: Leave Block all public access turned ON.

Finalize creation: Keep the remaining defaults as they are and click Create bucket. 2. Upload Your Web Files

Once your bucket is ready, populate it with your compiled site.

Open your bucket: Click on your newly created bucket name from the dashboard.

Upload content: Click Upload, then drag and drop or choose Add files/folders to add your index.html, style sheets, scripts, and asset folders.

Submit: Click the blue Upload button at the bottom of the page. 3. Provision an SSL Certificate Reddit·r/aws