Using S3 as your Webserver
who is this guy?
- steve bradford
- sr. systems engineer at herff jones
- AWS fanboy
- i like to build stupid little things
why should we listen to you?
- i've done this a lot
- i've got certifications that say i know what i'm doing
- i'm the one with the slides
who are you talking to?
- people that are new to AWS
- people that just want to host some things without managing servers
ok, what's AWS?
- Amazon Web Services
- Cloud Services
- Dozens and Dozens of Services
- competitors are Azure, GCS
ok, what's S3?
- Simple Storage Service
- Object Storage - NOT a filesystem
- Unlimited storage of files up to 5TB
- Fast, Durable, Reliable (mostly)
- Simple to use and mis-use
- Cheap - only pay for storage space and bandwidth out
neat! what can i use it for?
- storing lots of things that need to be accessed from more than one place
- user storage
- archives/backups
- web assets
- static sites
- dynamic sites (with help from other services)
what's the plan today?
- using the AWS console
- create a new bucket
- create a bucket policy
- enable web hosting on bucket
- put a file in the bucket
- view the file at the bucket's URL
AWS console
- how to login
- access controls
- navigation / selecting services
S3 bucket creation
- S3 console section
- naming your bucket
- folders aren't folders, but that's ok
S3 bucket policies
- specify the access rules for the bucket
- buckets are private by default, policies change that
- don't get these confused with IAM policies
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "PublicReadGetObject",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": "*",
"Action": "s3:GetObject",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::YOUR_BUCKET_NAME_HERE/*"
}
]
}
enable S3 hosting
- check the box...
place a file in the bucket
- upload via console
- API access
- AWS CLI tools
other things S3 can do
- logging
- versioning
- lifecycle rules
- lambda triggers
what if i want my own URL?
- Certificate Manager
- CloudFront
- Route53
Certificate Manager
- creation and renewal of SSL certs
- only usable with certain AWS services (ELB, CloudFront)
- requires SNI, so no really old IE browsers...
CloudFront
- a content delivery network / really big cache
- can server from many different origin types
- allows customization of how URL paths are handled
- fast, cheap
- can use Certificate Manager certs for custom SSL domain names
Route53
- AWS hosted and managed DNS
- doman name registrations too
- has the magical ALIAS record type
S3 Web Hosting
By steve bradford
S3 Web Hosting
An introduction to using AWS S3 to host static assets and sites.
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