TAKEPLACE: AMAZON S3 HOSTS COMPLETE STATIC WEBSITES

Sunday, February 20, 2011

AMAZON S3 HOSTS COMPLETE STATIC WEBSITES

Cheap, cloud-hosted web servers are a key component of a distributed web. But sometimes you don’t need a server, you just need a cheap way to host your static files, like images and videos. That’s the gap Amazon’s S3 service has long filled — offering a simple and cheap way to serve up static files without paying for an always-on server.
Now, thanks to an update, you can host not just a few image files, but a complete static website on Amazon S3.

Previously, S3 wouldn’t work for an entire site because the root level of your Amazon S3 “bucket” (as storage containers are called in Amazon parlance) was an XML file. For entire websites you needed to use Amazon EC2, even if your site was purely static content. WEBMONKEY

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