AWS Project: How to Create a Static Website for Free Using Amazon S3, Step by Step

How to Create a Static Website for Free Using Amazon S3 | AWS Tutorials for Beginners

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) can be used as inexpensive object storage (think: files, images, videos, logs, etc.). But did you know it can also be used to host a static website? Static meaning no server-side code, but it’s perfect for simple HTML, images and even some client-side scripts.

In a hands-on tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a bucket, enable it for static website hosting, update permissions, and then upload a simple html file and image. Then voila—our website is working!

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00:00 – Host a static website on Amazon S3 for free or almost free!
00:22 – Reviewing the Free Tier for Amazon S3
01:04 – S3 can only host static websites (no server-side code)
01:25 – Creating a new S3 bucket to host our website
01:52 – Enabling static website hosting on the S3 bucket
02:32 – Access denied! Allowing public access to the bucket
03:12 - Updating the bucket policy to allow read access to everyone
04:03 – Creating the HTML pages for your static website
04:45 – Viewing the static webpage in S3
05:20 – Deleting the S3 bucket

[EdsonNascimentoEN]

I came accross to your tutorials and loved them. Straight to the point and nice voice. Thanks a lot.

[anthonygonsalvis]

Worked flawlessly for my silly static webpage. Now I know how S3 works! for static websites! THX as always!

[salty]

Ya know, I love how almost every single question in the comment section was answered. That alone is an effort that should be recognized. I appreciate all the work you put into this video and if I have any questions, I know where to ask.

[rajmaniraj]

Thank you for all your efforts. I am following all your AWS related videos.

[betterluckchuck]

This tutorial is much easier than the user guide on AWS' site. Just needed to get a static page up and running, thanks!

[ywuppin]

I'm in the middle of doing my internship, and I was working on creating a VPC and Subnets for AD. I found your video very informative and easy to understand. Thank you so very much!

[jaymeyarroch]

This was GOLD! Thank you very much for sharing this. Liked, followed, and rung the bell.

[pabloaguirresolana]

Great tutorial, pretty helpful. Thanks so much !

[indianupdates]

Properly explained for beginners. Great Workk

[krishnadaily]

Great Efforts & it will useful for beginners !!

[sandunmadushan]

Thank you for creating this. I'm following you

[gusinthecloud]

Thank you very much indeed!! Great Tutorial

[svalyavasvalyava]

Wonderful tutorial and explanation, thank you infinitely ☺️

[chaitanyakashyap]

Thank You so Much my project is done!!🤗

[NomadxSpade]

Thank you so much, I was having an issue with the 404 page and thanks to your example I was able to find that it was my bucket policy.

[emilieberem]

Thank you for giving us so helpful videos! It really made me understand better what I have to do🙃 but I do have a question.. do I need to use terraform to deploy a website? Or is it the same as using cloud formation on aws? Sorry if it doesn’t have anything with the video (new to tech)😬

[morenikealuko]

Thank you so much for you help! This was really informative. Do you have any videos on how to create the html you used for the static website?

[bhagabangahir]

This is quite interesting one. I think we can directly use the resume you created with gpt 4.0 and directly we can host through S3. And the same we can use in our linked in profile😊

[Alejandro]

Thanks for the content, for me is very interesting all AWS is offering and you do a mega job.

If is posible can you teach us how works php in AWS, or is a service included, I am very curious about that.

[lakshmikrishnaja]

Hi, plz upload a video of AMI automation
By using packer tool.
S3 concept is neat and clear.easy to understand, by following ur video, I practiced the lab also.
so much.for ur effort.