Hosting a Static Website on AWS with S3 and CloudFront using Terraform

📰 Dev.to · Atul Vishwakarma

Host a static website on AWS using S3 and CloudFront with Terraform

intermediate Published 11 Apr 2026

Action Steps

Create an S3 bucket to store static website files
Configure CloudFront to distribute the static website
Use Terraform to automate the deployment of S3 and CloudFront resources
Test the deployment by accessing the static website via the CloudFront distribution

Who Needs to Know This

DevOps engineers and cloud architects can use this tutorial to deploy static websites on AWS, while software engineers can learn about infrastructure as code

Key Insight

💡 Terraform simplifies the deployment of static websites on AWS by automating the creation of S3 and CloudFront resources