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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by Diederich on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:26PM (#26596522)
> You should put a proper CDN, like CloudFront or Cloudflare, in front.

I understand what you're saying, but why? I assume the site in question is pretty low volume. What's wrong with serving directly from S3?

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by viraptor on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:42PM (#26596696)
You can't get https on S3. Also many interesting headers are only available via cloudfront.

Also you get a little bit of protection from someone sending lots of traffic to make you spend $$$

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by miyuru on Saturday March 27, 2021 @04:15AM (#26600822)
S3 does not support gzip compression.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26600816

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