Should I use S3 static website for my blog?

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Should I use S3 static website for my blog?
March 18, 2022 at 9:41 pm Reply

Jithesh x Jithu

What are the downfalls for that matter?

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March 19, 2022 at 12:49 pm Reply

Taral Shah

S3 website hosting is a great feature by AWS. This is very useful for the scenario like
- Hosting a static site for some demo
- Using static site with Javascript and provide some dynamism.
- Save cost. Comparing EC2 running cost this would be too cheaper
- It also supports root domain Support
- Configure index and error page
- Routing Redirect rule to move from old object to new object

 
March 19, 2022 at 12:57 pm Reply

Tarun Dave

There is a very good article by Amazon CTO for hosting your blog on AWS S3

Another article by him also shows power of new feature : AWS S3 Root domain Support
March 19, 2022 at 1:00 pm Reply

Taral Shah

Thanks Tarun for pointing this articles. And this gives the answer to why S3 is very well suited for hosting blogs.
Again do not forget S3 provides 9 9s reliability and very good availability which ensures S3 will have less chances of failures and provides HA.
April 10, 2022 at 10:08 am Reply

Aldrin Leal

The downside is not having nowhere to host Dynamic Content. Given current Browser Panorama, this could be a headache, as you’d still need a server to service stuff, and there are cross-domain issues, whitelisting, and stuff like that.

Alternatives depend, but for Javascript, there is CORS, but you should really make sure your server are well behaved, specially about potential XSRF/XSS Exploits, and to manage session storage as well. JSONP is also a good alternative for most matters, though.

Although I love this design, and heard great things about it (but I’m a mullet developer: Strong in the backend, weak in the frontend).

Perhaps some day I’ll try something about it, perhaps by porting my weekend Google AppEngine / WebToolkit Calculator (which does not divide - it needs a service for it) which is hosted at

http://gwtcalculator.appspot.com

 

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