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What is the simplest way to launch statiс website on AWS?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCxlPvyRYfY

Your cloud infrastructure will include following resources: S3 for storage, CloudFront for global content delivery, ACM for SSL/TLS encryption, and Route 53 for a domain. View video with the best method to launch statiс website.

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    Great video! It simplifies the process of building infrastructure on AWS for everyone!

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    Cool tutorial of how you use your tool to build a static site!

    You mentioned that one of the benefits of using this tool is cost & performance. I'd be curious to know more about how this architecture compares to other offerings. For example: If I build a static site with your tool, and my site gets 1K users per month, how much does that cost me? How does that compare to {x} site with {y} hosting provider?

    Keep up the good work, your tool is clean!

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      The setup that is shown in the demo is basically free, it uses s3, Cloudfront and Route 53. Cloudfront offers 10,000,000 requests for month for free, s3 also will not cost you more than a cent, the only thing that might cost you a dollar or so is Route 53, but it's optional for this setup and is only needed if you want to have a custom domain.

      Because architecture uses serverless technology it will much more efficient than renting any kind of VM. If we compare it to Azure or GCP, AWS has a great benefit of managing DNS and SSL in a simple and intuitive way, which I found lacking in other cloud providers.

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        Gotta love the free tier! 🙌

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      Thank you for the reply ScottJames!

      Good point. The intent of the tool is not to host something or provide the hosting platform, it rather creates the automated setup and generates the needed infrastructure code for you to use within a provider of your choice like AWS (Amazon Web Services). The exact pricing depends on the hosting provider itself but as you mentioned, the tool strives to build everything in the cost-effective, secure and robust manner so you don't need to spend the time learning and performing these tasks by your own. Moreover, the tool gives you the license-free generated code with the deployment framework, so you can further learn and extend it as much as you want.

      Try it out and share your thoughts! I will be glad to hear the complete professional feedback about the functionality https://archformation.com/

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    Isn't this better and simpler? Just curious.

    • Vercel - Hosting + Delivery
    • Cloudflare - DNS

    We rebuilt our website (raftlabs.com) using the following

    • Tech Stack - Gatsby, TailwindCSS
    • Hosting & Delivery - Vercel
    • CMS - Sanity

    We have zero cost for all of the above.

    You may check the performance of it - raftlabs.com

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    if you wanna take simple (but still kinda handrolled) to a new level just serve up a static html page on linode/akamai vps with nginx. ssl with lets encrypt, free cloudflare plan, done and done!

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    I have two rules. I don't use AWS and I don't use Azure. I'm not a fan of big tech.

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      What do you use?