Recently, I build my personal blog site using AWS services. It's a central place to add my every contribution. Ex - Medium & Dev.to articles, Youtube videos, etc.
My Personal Blog Site : https://lasanthasilva.tech/
Basically, I used a .tech domain, static website hosting, and a lot of AWS services.
- S3
- CloudFront
- Route53
- Certificate Manager(ACM)
- Lambda
- APIGateway
- DynamoDB
- IAM
I'm completed AWS Cloud Resume Challenge. Link
This is my Architectural Diagram
You can use my git repository to get sample code.
Git Repository
Let's start the challenge.
Step 1.
Build my blog site in HTML with CSS.
Step 2.
Created an S3 bucket to store portfolio files.
Step 3.
Create Route53 Hosted zone and add copy NS records. Next, paste the ns record domain provider nameservers section.
Step 4.
Next, go to the S3 bucket and enable Static website hosting, and map the Index document and Error document.
Step 5.
Requested a public certificate for your domain in AWS Certificate Manager(ACM).
Step 6.
Setup a CloudFront Distribution. Select S3 Static website hosting bucket endpoint and ACM public certificate.
Step 7.
Next, create a Lambda function for the Visitor Count display. Used Python 3.9 runtime.
Step 8.
Created DynamoDB table for Visitor count.
Step 9.
Created APIGateway REST API and Invoke Lambda function.
Step 10.
Create a git repository and push code.
Step 11.
Create GitHub Actions for deploying S3 static website files and Lambda function codes.
Finally, Push the latest release to Github.
These are the steps I used to build my personal blog site.
You can visit my blog site using this https://lasanthasilva.tech/.
Thanks for reading the Article.
References https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/WebsiteHosting.html
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Top comments (5)
@lasanthasilva a bug which I discovered is every new reload/refresh is appending the visitor count, This will show incorrect value, If you can use some cookie to determine visitor count, that would be perfect
@omkarokkadam I will check & update you. Thanks for your response.
Cool post! Can you share the monthly cost for AWS services?
The cost of hosting a static website using Amazon S3, CloudFront, and Route 53 can vary depending on the amount of data transferred, the number of requests made, and the region you choose to host your resources. Here is an estimation of the costs for the Ohio region based on the current AWS pricing as of my knowledge cutoff:
Amazon S3
Storage- $0.023 per GB per month for standard storage
Data transfer out- $0.09 per GB for the first 10 TB
Request- $0.0004 per 1,000 PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST requests; $0.000005 per 1,000 GET and all other requests
Amazon CloudFront
Data transfer out- $0.085 per GB for the first 10 TB
Request- $0.0075 per 10,000 HTTP or HTTPS requests
Amazon Route 53
Hosted zone- $0.50 per hosted zone per month
Queries- $0.40 per million queries for the first 1 billion queries
Note that these costs are estimated and may vary depending on your actual usage. You can use the AWS Pricing Calculator to get a more accurate estimate of your costs based on your specific needs.
Sure, I will share. After one month of using services.