Host a Static Site using Pelican , Amzon S3 for less than 1$

Host a Static Site using Pelican , Amzon S3 for less than a $1*

This article was basis for creating my personal site SilverDreamRacer.me static site. The only cost for me was - Amazon Route 53 Hosted Zones : 0.5$

*Ofcourse there is domain cost , I have got my domain for free part of another domain hosting deal.

Technolgies Used

• Pelican Static Site Generator
• AWS Resources
  • AWS CloudFront
  • AWS Route 53
  • AWS S3
  • AWS LambdaEdge
  • AWS Certificate Manager
• github.com actions for CI/CD
  • AWS CloudFormation for creating a AWS managed user for github actions

Pelican Static Site Generator

A simple easy to use static Site generator devloped in Python. We can create content in Markdown , so no additional resources required. Please Pelican Static Site Generator for more information.

Pls refer to my quick-reference for installtion commands.

Article intention is not to provide step by step instruction on how to use Pelican. So please go through the steps here for additional information.

One time Setup

A simple static site hosted on aws needs below few important resources

• Amazon S3 – Creates an Amazon S3 bucket to host your static website.

• CloudFront – Creates a CloudFront distribution to speed up your static website.

• Lambda@Edge – Uses Lambda@Edge to add security headers to every server response. Security headers are a group of headers in the web server response that tell web browsers to take extra security precautions. For more information, see the blog post Adding HTTP security headers using Lambda@Edge and Amazon CloudFront.

Configure AWS resources

Easy and simplest way is to use AWS Cloudformation Template outlined here to deploy/configure these resources.