How it works : The magic, and mostly AWS, behind it
So I got AWS certified in August 2026.
I get to say that it was no easy exam and I rarely experienced that much fatigue afterwards.
But I am very happy to be a professional architect now, and as such I wanted to build something with this newly acquired knowledge.
So to demonstrate it, what's better than my very own website ?
This costed me dozens of hours...
More seriously this website uses 4 separate services : S3, Route 53, ACM and CloudFront
I will detail how each of them are set up to produce this simple website.
S3
About every computing project I took part in are based around files. So I needed somewhere to store those files.
There is a lot of options concerning file storage in AWS, but in this scenario only S3 made sense.
Indeed S3 has some fun features like static website hosting, i will talk about it later, and is reasonably priced. So it was the perfect choice.
Now even if I am supposed to be comfortable with all of this, first time is always full of surprises.
I forgot that S3 only serves http. And thus the beautiful journey of "how to secure a website" began.
Starting with bucket policies, a topic that is certainly the most engaging of all falling just behind IAM and OUs.