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Re:Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you ... by bkgunby on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:44AM (#13023794)
Does that work with s3 static websites though? I recall that a different endpoint was needed, and it's only http.
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Re:Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you ... by gtsteve on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:26AM (#13029265)
The method I described doesn't require you to use a S3 static website. We don't have that option enabled, so the bucket name isn't mysite.com, it's "mysite-html", and the S3 website hosting is not enabled.

CloudFront has its own IAM user that is permitted to access the contents of the bucket, which means that it has to use the API. I don't think it's even possible to access the S3 API without using HTTPS. Therefore I think it is highly unlikely that the connection is unencrypted.

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Re:Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you ... by bkgunby on Friday November 25, 2016 @06:50PM (#13040782)
Awesome! I'm new to AWS, and when I tried to setup a static website using cloudfront + s3, I was only aware of the static website option on s3. This is what the docs uses, and it led me to the wrong path it seems! Thanks
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