Hosting Static Websites on Amazon S3

Building secure static websites on public cloud platforms like AWS can be the solution to many problems: they can cost next to nothing, will pretty much never be unavailable, and can provide a surprisingly wide range of features. The only real downside is that there's a bit of a learning curve you'll have to climb to get it done.

In this self-paced course, you'll learn how to build your own secure and highly-available static website on the Amazon S3 platform. The video demos will show you exactly how every step in the process works and the test-yourself quizzes will ensure you've understood and absorbed everything. Naturally, you're strongly encouraged to dive in to design and deploy a static site for yourself.

You'll also learn how to:

Use the popular Hugo static website generator to turn your HTML and other resources into a professional site
Generate a free website encryption certificate using AWS Certificate Manager
Deploy a global CDN distribution for your site using Amazon CloudFront
Automate the deployment of content updates
Whether you're responsible for sites supporting enterprise-level content stores, or you're just looking for a way to quickly throw together a simple Hello World project, an S3-based static website might be a perfect match.

Who this course is for:
Individuals looking to build a secure, robust, inexpensive, and (relatively) easy-to-manage website to be hosted on the Amazon S3 storage platform within their own AWS accounts

Course content

5 sections • 12 lectures • 42mins

Understanding the Static Website Universe 08mins

Preview - 01mins

Introduction - 02mins

What's a static website and why would you want one? - 05mins

Building a Static Website on AWS S3 08mins

How it's going to work? - 02mins

Create an S3 Bucket - 05mins

Optimizing Website Security and Performance 11mins

Create a Route 53 Domain and CloudFront Distribution - 08mins

Updating Content - 03mins

Working with Hugo Static Site Generator 14mins

Getting Hugo Working - 05mins

Adding Content - 05mins

Course Summary - 02mins

Test Yourself - 15 mins

Notes, Links and Code Snippets

Code Snippets

Notes and Links

Below are the learning objectives for this course:

Create and configure an S3 bucket and push content to it using the AWS CLI
Use AWS Route 53 to create a domain (or subdomain) for your site
Create a CloudFront distribution to enable low-latency CDN access
Request and deploy a (free) encryption certificate to ensure secure TLS/SSL access to your site
Create and upload site content using the Hugo static website generator

Requirements
Learners should have their own AWS accounts and a very basic familiarity with their use.
They should also have basic familiarity with a command line tool (PowerShell, Bash, Terminal, etc.) used by the OS on their personal computers.

David Clinton

David Clinton is an AWS solutions architect and Linux server administrator. He has written about and published training content (including books with Wiley/Sybex, Bootstrap IT, and Manning, and online courses on Udemy and Pluralsight) for many cutting edge technology subjects including Linux systems, Cloud Computing (in particular Amazon's AWS), container technologies like Kubernetes, data analytics, and DevOps tools. More than 60,000 of his books are currently in circulation and his video courses have been viewed by more than a half a million students.