Scenario

You want to create a website that will show off photos of clouds that look like fluffy bunnies.

You want this cheap, fast, and with no administrative overhead.

Let's hop to it!

Create the S3 Bucket(s)

cloudsthatlooklikebunnies.com

www.cloudsthatlooklikebunnies.com

Enable Web Hosting

AKA : check the box

Set Bucket Policy

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "PublicReadGetObject",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": "*",
            "Action": "s3:GetObject",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::cloudsthatlooklikebunnies.com/*"
        }
    ]
}

This allows the world to see your fuffy bunny clouds

Upload Your Site

Look at Them Bunnies

http://cloudsthatlooklikebunnies.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

But How Will Others Find It?

Add CloudFront

Add a Certificate

Point the DNS

Look at Them Fluffers

cloudsthatlooklikebunnies.com

www.cloudsthatlooklikebunnies.com *

Scenario

You've got a site already, and just need to host the assets.

Create the S3 Bucket

Create the CloudFront Distribution

Note the origin format!

Setup DNS