Amazon Web Services

Cromulent · 28 Oct 2023 at 19:10

I have a couple of static sites. One of them is hosted in GitHub using GitHub pages but I need to find another host for the other static sites. I was thinking AWS would be a good plan but then I was thinking about how to actually push changes to Amazon S3 to update the website. So my question is as follows: if I create a new git remote repo which points to a Git repo hosted on AWS CodeCommit I could then use AWS CodePipeline to push the changes to Amazon S3 which then update the site. I've checked out prices and it seems quite cheap.

Does this seem like a reasonable option?

Mesai · 28 Oct 2023 at 19:18

You could use GitHub actions, which is GitHub’s CI/CD, and push the changes that way.

Cromulent · 28 Oct 2023 at 19:19

Mesai said:
You could use GitHub actions, which is GitHub’s CI/CD, and push the changes that way.

Sorry for the stupid question but would that push directly to S3? I'm pretty new to this.

Mesai · 28 Oct 2023 at 20:18

Cromulent said:
Sorry for the stupid question but would that push directly to S3? I'm pretty new to this.

It’s been a while since I used actions but it’s essentially an Ubuntu container with the AWS CLI so you can do anything with the right permissions.

Can also try the actual action.
https://github.com/marketplace/actions/upload-s3

Cromulent · 28 Oct 2023 at 20:31

Mesai said:
It’s been a while since I used actions but it’s essentially an Ubuntu container with the AWS CLI so you can do anything with the right permissions.

Can also try the actual action.
https://github.com/marketplace/actions/upload-s3

Ah, thank you so much. I'll investigate.

peterwalkley · 28 Oct 2023 at 21:12

Take a look at AWS amplify. I found it very quick to get up and running. Any code commit to github is live within a couple of minutes (a simple Vue.js app). Route 53 for DNS also simple to add.

Cromulent · 29 Oct 2023 at 03:47

peterwalkley said:
Take a look at AWS amplify. I found it very quick to get up and running. Any code commit to github is live within a couple of minutes (a simple Vue.js app). Route 53 for DNS also simple to add.

Thank you. I'll look into that as well.

DanF · 30 Oct 2023 at 12:23

you can check out cloudflare as well, either just as basic dns / ssl / cache in front of your AWS site to minimise any costs

Free Plan Overview

The Free Plan provides free SSL, CDN, DDoS protection and more. Cloudflare’s Free plan gives you all the basics you need to protect & accelerate your website.

www.cloudflare.com

or using it to do the full page hosting, but might need to rework the site a bit to work with their spec

Cloudflare Pages

Build your next application with Cloudflare Pages

pages.cloudflare.com

Static HTML | Cloudflare Pages docs

Cloudflare supports deploying any static HTML website to Cloudflare Pages. If you manage your website without using a framework or static site generator, or if your framework is not listed in Framework guides, you can still deploy it using this guide.

developers.cloudflare.com

Cromulent · 30 Oct 2023 at 12:48

DanF said:
you can check out cloudflare as well, either just as basic dns / ssl / cache in front of your AWS site to minimise any costs

Free Plan Overview

The Free Plan provides free SSL, CDN, DDoS protection and more. Cloudflare’s Free plan gives you all the basics you need to protect & accelerate your website.

www.cloudflare.com

or using it to do the full page hosting, but might need to rework the site a bit to work with their spec

Cloudflare Pages

Build your next application with Cloudflare Pages

pages.cloudflare.com

Static HTML | Cloudflare Pages docs

Cloudflare supports deploying any static HTML website to Cloudflare Pages. If you manage your website without using a framework or static site generator, or if your framework is not listed in Framework guides, you can still deploy it using this guide.

developers.cloudflare.com

Cloudflare Pages looks amazing. Thank you. That looks exactly what I want.