How to Make an AWS S3 Static Website with SSL

In plain words

This is a tutorial on hosting a static website using AWS services. It explains how to build a site with Jekyll, sync files to an S3 bucket, use CloudFront for content delivery, enable free SSL certificates, and maintain pretty URLs. The guide documents a complete deployment workflow that has remained functional for years, making it useful for developers seeking a cost-effective hosting solution on AWS infrastructure.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

This post will describe how this website was created and will be maintained going forward. I will not go into too much detail here because the jekyll docs do a better job. jekyll build && jekyll serve spins up the site and I can access it at localhost:4000 The assets of the site all live in an Amazon S3 bucket. I decided that deployment would be done with the following series of commands: JEKYLL_ENV=production && jekyll build && aws s3 sync _site s3://josephecombs.com/ --profile eb-cli-2 Create a bucket named as the root TLD ( NOT www.); in my case the bucket name is josephecombs.com Turn on static website hosting in AWS S3: attach this policy to the bucket (do this on the “Permissions” tab…from josephecombs.com

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