Hosting your blog on AWS

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Hexo

When I bootstrapped my first blog, I picked Hexo, it's an open source project, powered by NodeJS. I had a quick look at it, and it ticked all my boxes: Markdown, statically generated pages and a ton of ready-to-use Themes. The statically generated pages will be important later on, so hang in there. Hexo worked great, 10/10 would recommend. The blog is still up today with zero maintenance.

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aws-cli

To upload the website in the public directory to S3, the easy way is to go with the AWS CLI. After installing and configuring the CLI, use following command to upload the website to S3. To get the name of your S3 bucket, head over to the S3 console. You'll see that a new bucket was created by CloudFormation.

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Amazon S3

For the setup on S3, we'll need 2 resources: AWS S3 and AWS CloudFront. The first is an object store with the option to host static websites, the second is a CDN.

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Amazon CloudFront

For the setup on S3, we'll need 2 resources: AWS S3 and AWS CloudFront. The first is an object store with the option to host static websites, the second is a CDN.

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AWS CloudFormation

You might have seen some tutorials on how to set up S3 buckets using the AWS Console. This works fine, but I'm a firm believer of managing your resources with code. I've chosen the native solution of AWS, called AWS CloudFormation. This makes it easier to reproduce the setup if I ever need to tear it down of move it to another account or region. Below is the full CloudFormation template, I've used a framework called Troposphere, a Python library that creates CloudFormation.

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