Hosting a static web site on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Static Web Hosting
S3 & Route53
by Erick Brito
Cloud Competency Group

Hands on
 In few minutes you will have a hosted site with
static content
 Requirements:
 Internet access
 Your credit card / your AWS account
 An html editor …
 A domain name …
 Out of the scope
 Html authoring
 CDN (Amazon CloudFront) We will review at high level
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AWS S3 Quick review
S3 for Simple Storage Service
 Use cases
 Content Storage and Distribution
 Storage for Data Analysis
 Backup, Archiving and Disaster Recovery
 Static Website Hosting
 Benefits:
 Secure
 Reliable (durability-availability)
 Scalable
 Fast
 Inexpensive

S3 Advices
 When to use
 Store large objects
 Key-value store – Get/Put/List
 Unilimited storage
 Versioning
 Very high durability & throughput
 For storing persistent data (Blob
store
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 Not to be used
 Complex queries
 Low latency
 Search
 Need transactions
 Best practices
 Use random hash prefix for keys
 Ensure a random access pattern
 Use Amazon CloudFront for hight throughput GETs and PUTs
 Consider parallel thread to read and write
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The Cloud
 New paradigms
 The cloud brings the scalability
 The old problems become bigger
 Simplicity is the key!
 S3 / Data Lifecycle Management
 … “As your data ages, Amazon S3 takes care of automatically and transparently
 migrating your data to new hardware as hardware fails or reaches its end of life.
 This eliminates the need for you to perform expensive, time-consuming, and risky
hardware migrations.
 Amazon S3 also enables you to automatically archive your data to lower cost storage as
your data ages.
 You can define rules to automatically archive sets of Amazon S3 objects to Amazon Glacier
based on their lifetime. … “

Where we go?
 To create a Static Web Site
 We assume we already have:
 Internet access
 Your credit card / your AWS account
 Covered by David Lotts
 An html editor … and the content
 A domain name …

The Architecture

Pricing
 We have to make some assumptions to define the next variables in order to
estimate the price
 Number of files and size.
 Total size
 Frequency to update files
 # Domain names
 # Locations to distribute the content
 Number of Visits

S3 Pricing
almost inexpensive
 http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

The Benefits
 Improve performance using a CDN,
 the second rule by http://yslow.org/user-guide/
 https://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cdn
 http://www.amazon.ca/High-Performance-Web-Sites-Essential/dp/0596529309
 Scalability
 Availability
 Cost reduction

Cooking the recipe
1. Get the ingredients
1. AWS account
2. Choose a Domain name
3. Have your content
2. Configure Storage on Amazon S3
1. Covered by David Lotts
2. the bucket names has the domain name!
3. Associate a Domain name with your website (Route53)

Configure Storage on Amazon S3
1. Create a new bucket with the same name as the domain, other for the
subdomain www and other for the logs on the same region.
2. Add permissions and create bucket policy for the root bucket (domain).
3. Enable logging
1. Target logs.domainname
2. Prefix root/
4. Upload content to the root bucket
5. Enable website hosting on the root
1. Define index page
2. Define error page
6. Redirect traffic from www to root
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{
"Version":"2008-10-17",
"Statement":[{
"Sid":"Allow Public Access to All Objects",
"Effect":"Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": "*"
},
"Action":["s3:GetObject"],
"Resource":["arn:aws:s3:::example.com/*"]}]}
Create 3
new
buckets
Add
permissions
Enable
logging
Upload
content
Enable web
hosting
Redirect
traffic

Where we are?

Associate a Domain with the website
Route53
1. Create a Hosted Zone with the Domain Name
2. Configure the A record for the root domain
1. Alias: yes
2. Alias Target (the root bucket)
3. Routing policy: Simple
3. For the www subdomain, configure another A record
1. Alias: yes
2. Target the (root domain)
3. Routing policy: Simple

Configure the DNS on the provider
 Retrieve the 4 servers from Route 53 record type NS.
 Those values are generated by AWS when creating the new Hosted Zone
 Manage your Domain Settings updating the Nameservers with the values
retrieved on the previous step.
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Register the domain
name
Create a new hosted
zone
Create 2 new records
(Type A)
Configure the Domain
Name Servers with the
values from the record
type NS
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Next steps not covered
 AWS Glacier: “ …Amazon Glacier is an
 extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for
data archiving and backup.
 In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is
infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable.
With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data
for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month…”
 AWS CloudFront: More than a CDN …

Other scenarios
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Total Cost: $1122/m
S3+Route53: $2/m
CloudFront:$44/m
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references
 http://awsdocs.s3.amazonaws.com/gettingstarted/latest/awsgsg-swh.pdf
 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website-hosting-
intro.html
 http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/gettingstarted/
 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website-hosting-
intro.html

Tools
 http://tntdrive.com
 http://www.gladinet.com/p/downloadmsi_715_mir01.htm
 http://s3browser.com

Q & A
Now it is time to ask questions!
Contact:
Erick Brito
http://blog.erickbrito.ca
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/erickbrito
Erick.Brito@lochbridge.com
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