Host a static website on S3 using AWS CDK

If you’ve built a website, whether for personal or commercial use, you probably researched web hosting options. Lots of companies provide this kind of services. In this post, we will build a very simple website, and host it on Amazon S3 (Amazon storage service), which can be used to host a static website (a site that contains static content and client-side scripts).

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Host a static website on S3 using AWS CDK

Brando Dietrich

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Host a static website on S3 using AWS CDK

If you’ve built a website, whether for personal or commercial use, you probably researched web hosting options. Lots of companies provide this kind of services. In this post, we will build a very simple website, and host it on Amazon S3 (Amazon storage service), which can be used to host a static website (a site that contains static content and client-side scripts).

#aws-cdk #static-site #typescript #aws #infrastructure

Mable Wilderman

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How to host a Static Website in AWS S3 - CodeBabel

Hello All! Welcome back to the third article in the AWS Series! As we already know, AWS S3 offers low cost, high performance, highly scalable, unlimited cloud storage with a pay-as-you-go approach. But, apart from being a storage option, it can also be used to host static web content. In this article, we will discuss how to host a static website in AWS S3.

Below is the overview of the steps for doing that:

Creating a bucket

Step1: First let’s create a bucket. For that, let’s first login to AWS console, and then select ‘S3’ under ‘Storage’ from the AWS ‘Console Home’.

select S3

Step2: Next, from the S3 console, let’s click on the ‘Create Bucket’ icon in the Amazon S3 console.

Creating New Bucket

A pop up window appears wherein we enter the bucket details. Here, let’s consider the bucket name as ‘codebabel-static-website-demo’ and the region can be according to the requirement. Here we have chosen the default region ‘US EAST ohio’. Let’s leave everything to default settings by clicking on “Next” option. In the ‘review’ page, let’s review our configurations and click on ‘Create bucket’ to create the S3 bucket.

Create New S3 Bucket

We can see the newly created S3 bucket in the AWS S3 console.

Created Bucket can be viewed in S3 Dashboard

Step3: For this demo, we have created a simple static website in HTML. It consists of an **index.html **file which has two web pages and an **error.html**file which throws an error message when something goes wrong. We also have some .css files for formatting. Now let’s upload these files in the AWS S3 demo bucket.

For this, let’s click on our S3 bucket and click on the “upload” option under the “overview” icon. We can either add or drag and drop the required files. We can also set permissions for each of the files while uploading by clicking the “Next” icon which we will discuss later in this article. For now, we will only upload the files by clicking “Upload“. Let’s upload all our files this way.

Upload Files

Enabling static website hosting

Step4: Let’s click on our S3 bucket, and go to Properties -> Static website hosting.

Enabling Static Website Hosting

We can see the generated endpoint URL to access our static website, as soon as we select this option. Now below that, we will mention the following: “Index document = index.html, error document = error.html“.

#devops #aws #aws s3 #css #github #html #scm #website hosting

Solwin Infotech

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Why Use WordPress? What Can You Do With WordPress?

Can you use WordPress for anything other than blogging? To your surprise, yes. WordPress is more than just a blogging tool, and it has helped thousands of websites and web applications to thrive. The use of WordPress powers around 40% of online projects, and today in our blog, we would visit some amazing uses of WordPress other than blogging.
What Is The Use Of WordPress?

WordPress is the most popular website platform in the world. It is the first choice of businesses that want to set a feature-rich and dynamic Content Management System. So, if you ask what WordPress is used for, the answer is – everything. It is a super-flexible, feature-rich and secure platform that offers everything to build unique websites and applications. Let’s start knowing them:

1. Multiple Websites Under A Single Installation
WordPress Multisite allows you to develop multiple sites from a single WordPress installation. You can download WordPress and start building websites you want to launch under a single server. Literally speaking, you can handle hundreds of sites from one single dashboard, which now needs applause.
It is a highly efficient platform that allows you to easily run several websites under the same login credentials. One of the best things about WordPress is the themes it has to offer. You can simply download them and plugin for various sites and save space on sites without losing their speed.

2. WordPress Social Network
WordPress can be used for high-end projects such as Social Media Network. If you don’t have the money and patience to hire a coder and invest months in building a feature-rich social media site, go for WordPress. It is one of the most amazing uses of WordPress. Its stunning CMS is unbeatable. And you can build sites as good as Facebook or Reddit etc. It can just make the process a lot easier.
To set up a social media network, you would have to download a WordPress Plugin called BuddyPress. It would allow you to connect a community page with ease and would provide all the necessary features of a community or social media. It has direct messaging, activity stream, user groups, extended profiles, and so much more. You just have to download and configure it.
If BuddyPress doesn’t meet all your needs, don’t give up on your dreams. You can try out WP Symposium or PeepSo. There are also several themes you can use to build a social network.

3. Create A Forum For Your Brand’s Community
Communities are very important for your business. They help you stay in constant connection with your users and consumers. And allow you to turn them into a loyal customer base. Meanwhile, there are many good technologies that can be used for building a community page – the good old WordPress is still the best.
It is the best community development technology. If you want to build your online community, you need to consider all the amazing features you get with WordPress. Plugins such as BB Press is an open-source, template-driven PHP/ MySQL forum software. It is very simple and doesn’t hamper the experience of the website.
Other tools such as wpFoRo and Asgaros Forum are equally good for creating a community blog. They are lightweight tools that are easy to manage and integrate with your WordPress site easily. However, there is only one tiny problem; you need to have some technical knowledge to build a WordPress Community blog page.

4. Shortcodes
Since we gave you a problem in the previous section, we would also give you a perfect solution for it. You might not know to code, but you have shortcodes. Shortcodes help you execute functions without having to code. It is an easy way to build an amazing website, add new features, customize plugins easily. They are short lines of code, and rather than memorizing multiple lines; you can have zero technical knowledge and start building a feature-rich website or application.
There are also plugins like Shortcoder, Shortcodes Ultimate, and the Basics available on WordPress that can be used, and you would not even have to remember the shortcodes.

5. Build Online Stores
If you still think about why to use WordPress, use it to build an online store. You can start selling your goods online and start selling. It is an affordable technology that helps you build a feature-rich eCommerce store with WordPress.
WooCommerce is an extension of WordPress and is one of the most used eCommerce solutions. WooCommerce holds a 28% share of the global market and is one of the best ways to set up an online store. It allows you to build user-friendly and professional online stores and has thousands of free and paid extensions. Moreover as an open-source platform, and you don’t have to pay for the license.
Apart from WooCommerce, there are Easy Digital Downloads, iThemes Exchange, Shopify eCommerce plugin, and so much more available.

6. Security Features
WordPress takes security very seriously. It offers tons of external solutions that help you in safeguarding your WordPress site. While there is no way to ensure 100% security, it provides regular updates with security patches and provides several plugins to help with backups, two-factor authorization, and more.
By choosing hosting providers like WP Engine, you can improve the security of the website. It helps in threat detection, manage patching and updates, and internal security audits for the customers, and so much more.

How to Share your Notebooks as Static Websites with AWS S3

A walkthrough example of how you can share your reports as static websites with AWS S3

Data Scientists use to work with notebooks like Jupyter and RMarkdown. Through notebooks, they can easily share their analysis in HTML format. But what about when there is a need to share the notebooks publicly? In this case, the most convenient way is to configure an Amazon S3 bucket to function as a static website. In this tutorial, we will provide you a walkthrough example of how you can share your notebooks as a static website with AWS S3.

#static-websites #s3 #aws #notebook

Rory West

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Create your first S3 bucket using AWS CDK

Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as code is the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.

If you want to know more about Infrastructure as Code and when to use different IaC tools take a look at this article of mine.

What is Infrastructure-as-Code and how is Terraform, CDK Ansible different?

AWS CDK

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure in code and provision it through AWS CloudFormation.
It offers a high-level object-oriented abstraction to define AWS resources imperatively using the power of modern programming languages. Using the CDK’s library of infrastructure constructs, you can easily encapsulate AWS best practices in your infrastructure definition and share it without worrying about boilerplate logic.
The AWS CDK has first-class support for TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, and C#.

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