Despite me having worked with AWS services for a while, I had never deployed a project from scratch by myself. After studying and passing the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam I figured it was time that I put all of my knowledge together a deploy my own project from scratch. I had previously created a website, fightdb.org and have it hosted on a VPN (Architecture explanation here). Rather than migrating that over, I decided to host my portfolio site within the AWS ecosystem.
AWS Architecture
Within AWS, there are multiple ways to deploy a static website.
- AWS Amplify
- This method is used for deploying web or mobile apps in a server-less ecosystem.
- Little to no deployment skills required
- S3 static hosting
- A “object” storage system that has the ability to host your static files
- This method requires setting up everything yourself
Just to be able to see the pros and cons of both, I tried deploying my app using each service listed above.