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.

By contrast, a dynamic website relies on server-side processing, including server-side scripts, such as PHP, JSP, or ASP.NET. Amazon S3 does not support server-side scripting, but AWS has other resources for hosting dynamic websites. To learn more about website hosting on AWS, see Web Hosting.

Note

You can use the AWS Amplify Console to host a single-page web app. The AWS Amplify Console supports single-page apps built with single-page app frameworks (for example, React JS, Vue JS, Angular JS, and Nuxt) and static site generators (for example, Gatsby JS, React-static, Jekyll, and Hugo). For more information, see Getting Started in the AWS Amplify Console User Guide.

Amazon S3 website endpoints do not support HTTPS. If you want to use HTTPS, you can use Amazon CloudFront to serve a static website hosted on Amazon S3. For more information, see How do I use CloudFront to serve HTTPS requests for my Amazon S3 bucket? To use HTTPS with a custom domain, see Configuring a static website using a custom domain registered with Route 53.

For more information about hosting a static website on Amazon S3, including instructions and step-by-step walkthroughs, see the following topics.

Topics

• Website endpoints
• Enabling website hosting
• Configuring an index document
• Configuring a custom error document
• Setting permissions for website access
• (Optional) Logging web traffic
• (Optional) Configuring a webpage redirect
• Using cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)
• Static website tutorials