Static sites can host all kinds of websites from your personal portfolio, to a company landing page, or even a blog.
The main advantage of static sites is that they are simple to manage. They are also very cost-efficient. And with static sites, you don’t need complex content management services (CMS) that run on servers all the time (even if you don’t have any traffic).
In this post, you will learn how to host a static website in the AWS cloud in 4 steps, using AWS Amplify and Route 53. And the best part? It will cost you almost nothing every month.
What is a static website?
Static websites are website served from a storage server or a content delivery network (CDN). There is no need to have a running server creating the HTML files.
These websites are pre-built as HTML files that are stored somewhere on the internet and then served as they were built.
Static sites can have dynamic content, but it is handled on the client-side using JavaScript or some third party integrations using APIs.
Some benefits of using a static site are:
- They’re easy to scale
- If you’re using a CDN, loading times are fast
- They’re cost-effective
- They’re easy to maintain
For example, my personal website is a good example of a static site:
What is AWS?
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services and is the most widely-adopted cloud platform. It has lots of different services to help you to develop and host your applications.
AWS also has data centers around the world and millions of customers use it.
Using the cloud for your applications you will lower the costs, help you become more agile, and allow you to innovate faster than if you were using your own on-premise servers.
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