S3 Static Website Hosting

Learn how to host a static website using an S3 bucket.

Static websites are web applications that consist of fixed, unchanging content; unlike dynamic websites, where the content is generated on the server dynamically in response to user requests, static websites present pre-built, unaltered HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files directly to the user's web browser.

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Static website hosting in S3

S3 buckets allow us to upload static HTML web pages and serve them on region-specific website endpoints. The general format of an S3 endpoint is of two types, depending upon the region.

  • s3-website dash (-) Region: http://bucket-name.s3-website-Region.amazonaws.com

  • s3-website ...