Hosting a static website using Amazon S3
You can use Amazon S3 to host a static website. On a static website, individual webpages include static content. They might also contain client-side scripts.
Note
We recommend that you use AWS Amplify Hosting to host static website content stored on S3. Amplify Hosting is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy your websites on a globally available content delivery network (CDN) powered by Amazon CloudFront, allowing secure static website hosting.
With AWS Amplify Hosting, you can select the location of your objects within your general purpose bucket, deploy your content to a managed CDN, and generate a public HTTPS URL for your website to be accessible anywhere. For more information about Amplify Hosting, see Deploying a static website to AWS Amplify Hosting from an S3 general purpose bucket and Deploying a static website from S3 using the Amplify console in the AWS Amplify Console User Guide.
For more information about hosting a static website on Amazon S3, including instructions and step-by-step walkthroughs, see the following topics.
Important
If the bucket that you're using to host your static website has been encrypted using server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys (SSE-KMS), you must create an Amazon CloudFront distribution to serve your website because SSE-KMS doesn't support anonymous users. When you create your CloudFront distribution, you must use origin access control (OAC) instead of origin access identity (OAI) to secure the origin. OAI doesn't support SSE-KMS, so you must use OAC instead.
For more information about OAC, see Restrict access to an Amazon S3 origin in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide. For a tutorial that shows how to host a static website using Amazon CloudFront, see Tutorial: Hosting on-demand streaming video with Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53.
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