Building Static Websites on AWS (AWS Whitepaper)

May 2017
This whitepaper covers comprehensive architectural guidance for developing, deploying, and managing static websites on Amazon Web Services (AWS) while keeping operational simplicity and business requirements in mind. We also recommend an approach that provides these business benefits: 1) insignificant cost of operation, 2) little or no management required, and 3) a highly scalable, resilient, and reliable website.

This whitepaper first reviews how static websites are hosted in traditional hosting environments. Then we explore a simpler and more cost-efficient approach using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Finally, we show you how you can enhance the AWS architecture to layer on functionality and improve quality of service by using Amazon CloudFront.

This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it in PDF format at https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/.