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Host Your Personal Website on AWS for (Almost) Free — With S3 and CloudFront

DEV Community: beginners·Ikoh Sylva·3 days ago
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A practical walkthrough for deploying a static portfolio, resume, or about-me page the cloud-native way with HTTPS, global delivery, and zero server maintenance. Every cloud engineer needs a live portfolio. It proves you can ship not just talk theory. This project is deceptively simple on the surface, but underneath it teaches you S3 permissions, CDN architecture, bucket policies, and origin access control all concepts that show up on AWS certifications and real-world cloud jobs. In this guide, I'll walk you through exactly how I deployed my own static website using Amazon S3 for storage and Amazon CloudFront as the content delivery network no EC2, no server patching, no midnight alerts. Just clean, fast, globally distributed HTML. "The best infrastructure is the kind you don't have to babysit at 2am." Why S3 + CloudFront? Before we touch a single AWS console screen, let's understand the architecture we're building and why it makes sense. 💰 Near-zero cost S3 storage for a personal site costs pennies.…

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