First AWS Project (Static website on S3)

I have just Created and deployed my first static website on AWS, the first of many projects. I learned how to apply the following services:

• Amazon S3

• AWS CloudFront

• AWS Route53

• AWS Certificate Manager

I have gotten a better understanding of the following services because of this project and these are the following things I have learned.

Architecture Diagrams

I used Eraser.io to draw out the architecture for the project to enable me visualize it better and have a clear guide on how to implement it. Here is the diagram:

Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is amazons' storage service and i used it to store the files for my website. i learned the following:

• how to implement bucket policies

Route 53

I used route 53 to register my domain name. I learned the following things:

• how to create hosted zone

AWS Certificate Manager

I used this service to get SSL certificate for my website

AWS CloudFront

This is content delivery network i used to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS.