How to Host a Static Website on Amazon S3 Without a Server
Amazon S3 can serve static websites directly from a storage bucket without requiring any EC2 instance or server management. To enable this, users must activate static website hosting under the bucket's Properties tab and define an index document and an optional error document. AWS blocks public access to all new buckets by default, so this setting must be manually disabled and a bucket policy granting public read access must be explicitly added. Once these steps are complete, the site becomes accessible to anyone via a dedicated S3 website endpoint URL. The exercise highlights a key AWS concept: an object existing in a bucket is not the same as that object being publicly reachable.
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