aws-static-website-hosting

This AWS CloudFormation template creates all necessarry resources to host a static website.

Prerequisites

Required

• At least one hosted zone in Route53.
• Rights for creating of all resources used in this template

Optional

• a certificate in region us-east-1, which covers the domain

Parameters

DomainName

The domain name parameter is used for creating a bucket as well as a record set which points to the CloudFront distribution.

IndexDocument

The index document which is called if no other path is set in the request.

Default: index.html

ErrorDocument

The document which is returned in case of an error.

Default: error.html

Custom404ErrorPage

The document which is shown in case of a HTTP Error Code 404 Not Found.

Default: 404.html

PriceClass

Region and pricing plan for the CloudFront CDN Distribution. Allowed values are

• PriceClass_All
• PriceClass_200
• PriceClass_100

PriceClass_All is for worldwide distribution. This option is the momst expensive one. PriceClass_200 is worldwide distribution except of South America and Australia. PriceClass_100 is the cheapest option and used if the origin of your requests are usually in the US, the EU or in Canada.

Default: PriceClass_100

UseDefaultTLSCertificate

If you want to use a CloudFront default certificate (covering *.cloudfront.net) or not. You should never use a default certificate in a production environment.

Default: false

CertificateArn

The ARN of the certificate you want to use. This certificate has to be located in the region us-east-1 and needs to be verified. If UseDefaultTLSCertificate is true you can ignore this parameter. Otherwise it is mandatory.

HostedZoneId

The ID of the Route53 hosted zone. In this hosted zone the record set will be created.

LoggingBucket

The S3 bucket name where CloudFront logs will be stored.

LoggingPrefix:

The prefix of the log files.

Default: cloudfront

Resources

How To Install

Via AWS Management Console

1. Open your AWS Management Console and Login to your account
2. Switch to the region where you want to deploy the infrastructure
3. Click on Services
4. Click on CloudFormation
5. Click on Create Stack button
6. Under Choose a template choose the option Upload a template to Amazon S3
7. Click on the Browse... button
8. Select the CloudFormation script (BasicStaticDistribution.yml)
9. Click on Next button
10. Insert the parameters and click on Next
11. Optionally you can add tags and configure CloudWatch alarms
12. Click on Next button
13. Review the information and click on Create button