Setting Up an HTTPS Static Site Using Amazon AWS S3 and Cloudfront

For many years I have been paying a cloud server provider to host my personal site. At some point I had a blog, but lately, with blog communities like Medium, it had been reduced to a one page index.html.

But the cost of having one cloud server, even if it’s the tiniest one, ends up costing around $15 month, which if you add up in months and years, can become a good chunk of money.

So at the beginning of this year, I decided to look at two technologies that can help me with this, cost-wise…