Deploy a static website on AWS with terraform

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AWS WAF

As we don’t have any backend we are not going to use AWS WAF as the most useful thing it can do here is bot protection. It will be overhead for the simple static website. CloudFront already provides a decent level of level 3 and 4 DoS attacks.

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Amazon S3

In the previous article, we deployed an API as a docker container on AWS EC2. In the current article, we are going to deploy a simple website on AWS without the backend (so next we can add it 😉). We will distribute the content using AWS S3 and AWS CloudFront (content delivery network service). As a frontend will be used an open-source Start Bootstrap example with an MIT license. Everything we deploy in the article is supported by AWS free tier. All the code related to the article can be found in GitHub repo.

#Cloud Hosting #Object Storage #Cloud Storage 170 social mentions

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AWS Lambda

Note: That is enough for the example project, but for production project map could be way more granular or the dist can be more specified based on paths. If we don’t control the object upload process via Lambda@Edge or Lambda functions during uploading the file on S3 depends on the content. Moreover, we need to filter out dev files, like .scss, license, readme, etc.

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Amazon CloudFront

In the previous article, we deployed an API as a docker container on AWS EC2. In the current article, we are going to deploy a simple website on AWS without the backend (so next we can add it 😉). We will distribute the content using AWS S3 and AWS CloudFront (content delivery network service). As a frontend will be used an open-source Start Bootstrap example with an MIT license. Everything we deploy in the article is supported by AWS free tier. All the code related to the article can be found in GitHub repo.

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AWS Certificate Manager

Usage of the default CloudFront certificate is not recommended as it uses an old SSL version. In production system should be used an ACM certificate.

#Identity And Access Management #Network & Admin #Two Factor Authentication 23 social mentions