francotel / static-website-s3-tf

Deploying a Static Website on AWS Using S3 and CloudFront

🌐 This repository contains the configuration for deploying a static website on AWS using S3 for hosting and CloudFront for content delivery.

Requirements 📋

• Terraform >= [1.6.6]
• AWS CLI >= [2.13.28]
• Git >= [2.37.1]
• AWS account with IAM credentials with appropriate permissions
• Configuration of secrets in GitHub for AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, and AWS_DEFAULT_REGION

Development 🛠️

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/francotel/static-website-s3-tf.git
   cd static-website-s3-tf

2. Diagram:

   

Advantages of Amazon S3 📦

1. Scalability & Durability: S3 offers high scalability and exceptional durability, ensuring data integrity for large-scale storage needs.

2. Cost-Effectiveness: Its pay-as-you-go pricing model allows payment for only the storage and data transfer utilized.

3. User-Friendly: Provides an intuitive interface and robust API for managing and accessing stored data.

4. Security: Offers advanced security options including access control policies, encryption, and auditing.

Advantages of Amazon CloudFront ☁️

1. Speed & Performance: CloudFront uses a global network of servers (edge locations) to distribute content from closer locations, enhancing load speed.

2. Auto-Scaling: Automatically scales to handle traffic spikes, ensuring consistent performance during high-demand periods.

3. Bandwidth Optimization: Reduces origin server load by caching static and dynamic content, minimizing load on the origin infrastructure.

4. Advanced Security: Provides security features like SSL/TLS, DDoS protection, and options to restrict content access.

Common Use Cases 🚀

• Static Websites: S3 is ideal for hosting static sites like web pages, blogs, or single-page applications (SPAs).

• Media Streaming & Large File Storage: S3 facilitates easy storage and delivery of multimedia content, such as videos, music, or large files.

• Global Content Distribution: CloudFront accelerates global content delivery, ensuring faster content delivery to end-users.

• Scalable Web Applications: The combination of S3 and CloudFront suits applications requiring scalability and global performance, such as enterprise applications or streaming services.

GitHub Actions 🚀

name: Deploy Terraform to AWS

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Setup Terraform
        uses: hashicorp/setup-terraform@v1
        with:
          cli_config_credentials_token: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
          cli_config_credentials_secret: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
          aws_region: ${{ secrets.AWS_DEFAULT_REGION }}

      - name: Terraform Init
        run: terraform init

      - name: Terraform Plan
        run: terraform plan -out=tfplan

      - name: Terraform Apply
        run: terraform apply tfplan -auto-approve

Contributions 🤝

Contributions are welcome! If you'd like to enhance this project, feel free to submit a pull request.

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Your contribution means a lot! Thank you for your support! ❤️

License 📄

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.