Cloudfront
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Setting up automatic failover for your static websites hosted on S3
Up until late last year, you couldn't set up automatic failover in CloudFront to look at a different bucket. You could only have one Primary origin at a time, which meant that you needed additional...
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Create your own short link redirects using CloudFront + S3
Get branded short links under your own domain for dirt-cheap by self-hosting it on AWS using CloudFront + S3. It's a no-code server-less solution to get redirects on the cheap and in this guide, I'll...
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That time I needed to create 20k short links, and how I did it on AWS
This problem landed on my lap awhile ago, and I've seen it come up time and time again so I wanted to share how we went about it. Our marketing team was submitting one of our products for a review for...
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Gotcha's with Cloudfront + S3 Architecture
Right now, we have a website hosted in an S3 bucket using CloudFront defined in terraform running with automated tests. There's a few catches with using this setup so we'll go into what these issues...
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Creating your serverless static website in terraform, part 2
Let's review the architecture we put together in Part 1. Check out Part 1 a main website that is hosted at a www. subdomain an html/js/css app that is hosted in an S3 bucket a cloudfront distribution...
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Creating a serverless static website, part 1
Creating a serverless static website What's the problem? I want to deploy a plain HTML/CSS/JS website with the minimal amount of fuss. I'm going to be using it for a simple web-app so I want to make...
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