https://stackdelight.com/tags/cloudfront/Recent content in CloudFront on StackDelightHugoen-usSat, 31 May 2025 15:02:35 +0300https://stackdelight.com/posts/static-site-with-cloudfront-s3/Sat, 31 May 2025 15:02:35 +0300https://stackdelight.com/posts/static-site-with-cloudfront-s3/<p>Static site generators like <a href="https://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a>, <a href="https://astro.build/">Astro</a> or even (with some concessions) <a href="https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/rendering/static-site-generation">Next.js</a> are great for building responsive, SEO-friendly websites. It&rsquo;s especially effective for uncomplicated landing pages, blogs or documentation sites. In the AWS world, static sites have been historically hosted via an S3 bucket with <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/WebsiteHosting.html">website hosting</a> enabled.</p> <div class="callout tip "> This method was superseded by the CloudFront+S3 combination </div> <p>Which offers clearer separation of concerns and modern functionalities such as URL rewriting, SSL certificates and an actual CDN in front of it. In this article we will create a reusable CDK construct to implement this setup.</p>