A friend of mine recently asked about hosting a simple static site for his business. There are lots of places that will do virtual hosting for you, but he really just wanted a simple single page site for his business. I remembered that Amazon recently enabled static website hosting using their S3 service, so I figured I would give it a try.
Pretty much just had to follow the instructions on this tutorial page. I didn't do the redirect business since I only had one domain name, not two. Also, it was easy for me since I already have a custom domain service at Dyn.
Logged into console.aws.amazon.com and created ab90.beguelin.com bucket.
Create a simple index.html file called ab90.html. Uploaded it using the console.
Grant everyone open and download permissions.
Add bucket policy:
{ "Version":"2008-10-17", "Statement":[{ "Sid":"AddPerm", "Effect":"Allow", "Principal": { "AWS": "*" }, "Action":["s3:GetObject"], "Resource":["arn:aws:s3:::ab90.beguelin.com/*" ] } ] }
Select enable static hosting. Now go to the ab90.beguelin.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com site and it's there!
Create a CNAME ab90.beguelin.com that points to ab90.beguelin.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com and then it's done! I now have a new static site at http://ab90.beguelin.comhttp://ab90.beguelin.com.