Caveat… this is likely not the option you want to pursue for a small to medium scale Minecraft server… Lightsail will be more cost-effective due to the amount of data transfer involved. Also, this is partly an exercise it navigating Amazon Linux as a largely Ubuntu user. Purchase a Domain I’m going through Namecheap for […]
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Monitoring your S3 buckets for #omgcat usage
If you’re serving up a static website from S3, especially if you have larger assets stored there, you may want to put monitoring on the requests or bytes downloaded from S3, just to make sure someone’s not running up terabytes of transfers or millions of requests. Enabling Metrics on S3 You will have to enable […]
Monitoring your CloudFront #omgcat usage
Ok, so you’ve created a lovely static site and/or set up a CloudFront distribution for https for it. But CloudFront bills by the GB. What if somebody decides your assets are perfect to hotlink to or just straight up makes an insane boatload of requests? How do you protect yourself from getting a frightening bill […]
Adding a https to an S3 static site via CloudFront
Ok, so we’ve set up a static site hosted from an S3 bucket with a custom domain using Route 53. But sadly, it’s: Request a Certificate in Certificate Manager Go to Services -> Certificate Manager Click [Request a Certificate] In the window that opens from “Request or Import a Certificate with ACM”, enter your domain […]
Hosting a static site on S3 with a purchased domain
S3 Static Site Setup Creating buckets In your AWS Console, go to Services -> S3 Optional: Click [ + Create Bucket ] Type in a bucket name for static site logging (i.e., domainname.com-logs) Accept next all the way to Create Bucket Click [ + Create Bucket ] Type in your domain name (for example, “domainname.com”) […]