Hosting a static website on S3

This project creates simple website hosting via S3. The cloudformation script which is "stack.yml" creates S3 bucket, configure it as website hosting

Prerequisities

• Install the Amazon Cli
• Export AWS credentials, cloudformation stack name and s3 website hosting domain name as a parameter
  • export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID>
  • export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<YOUR_AWS_SECRET_KEY>
  • export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
  • export AWS_ACCOUNT_ID=$(aws sts get-caller-identity --output text --query 'Account')
  • export STACK_NAME=samplewebsitehosting
  • export DOMAIN_NAME=sampledemowebsite-$AWS_ACCOUNT_ID

Infrastructure

To build the infrastructure use the following command:

aws cloudformation create-stack --region $AWS_DEFAULT_REGION --template-body file://$PWD/stack.yml --stack-name $STACK_NAME --parameters ParameterKey=DomainName,ParameterValue=$DOMAIN_NAME

To update the bucket:

aws cloudformation update-stack --region $AWS_DEFAULT_REGION --template-body file://$PWD/stack.yml --stack-name $STACK_NAME --parameters ParameterKey=DomainName,ParameterValue=$DOMAIN_NAME

To destroy the infrastructure:

aws s3 rm s3://$DOMAIN_NAME --recursive
aws cloudformation delete-stack --stack-name $STACK_NAME

Deployment

After Cloudformation stack created, Upload the contents of the html files into the bucket:

aws s3 cp --acl public-read --recursive code/ s3://$DOMAIN_NAME/

Getting URL of static website

Execute following command to retrieve website output:

aws cloudformation describe-stacks --stack-name $STACK_NAME --query "Stacks[0].Outputs[?OutputKey=='WebsiteURL'].OutputValue" --output text

Sample URL: http://sampledemowebsite-111111111.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com