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Life & fun · November 14, 2021

Simple CDN backed static website in AWS

Publish a simple, cheap, CDN backed, static website using a single AWS CloudFormation script - lifebeyondfife/simple-static-website

Simple CDN backed static website in AWS launched on November 14, 2021 with 18 votes, #1,131 of 2,925 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

In plain words

Simple CDN backed static website in AWS is a project for developers who want to host static websites on Amazon Web Services with content delivery network acceleration. It provides the infrastructure setup and configuration needed to deploy static sites efficiently using AWS services. The project is available on GitHub and was launched in November 2021.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

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