rezarajan / aws-static-hosting

Project 1 for the Udacity Cloud DevOps Engineer NanoDegree. In this project, a static website is hosted on AWS.

Project - Static Website Hosting on AWS

The purpose of this project is to host a static website on AWS using S3 and CloudFront.

Rubric Points

Below is an outline of how the rubric points have been addressed.

Website Files

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Note: The steps in this project have been completed entirely using aws cli.

The student has created a S3 bucket.

And S3 bucket is created with public read access:

aws s3api create-bucket --bucket 8e45017a-5591-40db-bacd-d247ead45df0 --acl public-read

All website files should be added to the S3 bucket.

The static website files are extracted to the folder called files. They are uploaded to the previously created AWS bucket.

aws s3 sync files/ s3://8e45017a-5591-40db-bacd-d247ead45df0

The bucket configuration should be set up to support static website hosting.

The website is set up for static website hosting using the following command, specifying the index and error documents (both direct to index.html):

aws s3 website s3://8e45017a-5591-40db-bacd-d247ead45df0/ --index-document index.html --error-document index.html

The permission access to the bucket should be configured.

A JSON policy file (policy.json) is created with the following content:

{
"Version":"2012-10-17",
"Statement":[
 {
   "Sid":"AddPerm",
   "Effect":"Allow",
   "Principal": "*",
   "Action":["s3:GetObject"],
   "Resource":["arn:aws:s3:::8e45017a-5591-40db-bacd-d247ead45df0/*"]
 }
]
}

The policy.json file is used to set the bucket policy:

aws s3api put-bucket-policy --bucket 8e45017a-5591-40db-bacd-d247ead45df0 --policy file://policy.json

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Website Distribution

The website should be distributed via Cloudfront.

A CloudFront distribution is created for the website:

aws cloudfront create-distribution --origin-domain-name 8e45017a-5591-40db-bacd-d247ead45df0.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com --default-root-object index.html

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Web Browser Access

Is the website publicly accessible?

The website is accessible via the following url's:

• CloudFront: https://d37rpmiomjoak4.cloudfront.net
• S3: http://8e45017a-5591-40db-bacd-d247ead45df0.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com