Serverless Static Websites on AWS

Learn how to take a website and convert it from a traditional site to a serverless site using key AWS services, including Amazon S3 and CloudWatch.

Introduction

• Websites without servers in two hours
• Why is serverless such a hot topic?

1. Moving from Servers to a Serverless Architecture

• S3 as a website hosting mechanism
• Buckets and servers don't cost the same!
• Look at a serverless website architecture

2. Hosting a Simple Static Website

• Manage website requests with S3 bucket names
• Set up the folder structure for your website
• Set up an S3 bucket to hosting a website
• Setting a policy for your S3 bucket
• Upload your site to S3
• Point a domain at your site with Route53
• Redirect www requests to your site
• Challenge: Add new pages to your website
• Solution: Add new pages to your website

3. Monitoring an S3-Hosted Static Website

• Configure CloudWatch for basic monitoring
• Keep up with your website logs
• Dashboards are your monitoring best friend
• Challenge: Add widgets to your monitoring dashboard
• Solution: Add widgets to your monitoring dashboard

4. What's Next for a Serverless Static Website?

• Good monitoring is rarely basic monitoring
• Static sites can become dynamic sites
• Keeping your free site free

Conclusion

• Hosting dynamic content