Notes on Setting Up a Static Website With AWS (Route 53, S3, ACM)

Published on September 4, 2024 (↻ September 18, 2024), filed under (RSS feed for all categories).

After Cloudflare came AWS. This time not merely putting a service in front of a website, I wanted to test the whole process around setting up a full-blown static website on AWS.

Superquick notes again—happy if anything helps, also happy if I can learn something from you.

Is AWS Worth It?

Is it worth setting up a static website on AWS? Before sharing my view on this, here are the pros and cons I see in doing so:

Pros

Cons

But, is it worth it?

I think only if you have an international audience and a lot of traffic. (What “a lot” is, is up to you.)

Personally, which I cannot separate from professionally here, I’m now tearing down my tests, and will for the moment not run my sites entirely on AWS. But, I think it’s a real and likely option for me to move select projects here in a few years, like meiert.com as well as Frontend Dogma. Yet that’s going to be a time investment, and the sites aren’t at the point yet where that has to happen.

That has been my experience, that’s my view at the moment—as mentioned in the beginning, great if something in here has been useful for you, and let me know if you think something could be of interest for me to know! Cheers!

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About Me

Jens Oliver Meiert, on November 9, 2024.

I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m a frontend engineering leader and tech author/publisher. I’ve worked as a technical lead for companies like Google and as an engineering manager for companies like Miro, I’m a contributor to several web standards, and I write and review books for O’Reilly and Frontend Dogma.

I love trying things, not only in web development (and engineering management), but also in other areas like philosophy. Here on meiert.com I share some of my experiences and views. (Please be critical, interpret charitably, and give feedback.)