Static Website Hosting, Storage and Content Delivery on AWS

Re:Static Website Hosting, Storage and Content Delivery on AWS by AndresDepegna on Thursday August 14, 2014 @09:55AM (#8177456)

The concept is interesting, but I'm wondering about performances of S3 compared to a normal webserver on EC2 or elsewhere. Any clue?

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Re:Static Website Hosting, Storage and Content Delivery on AWS by alexcasalboni on Thursday August 14, 2014 @10:04AM (#8177514)

Hi Andres, S3 is designed to scale up to very high request rates. However, if your workload exceeds 300 GET requests per second, as suggested by AWS, you can consider Amazon CloudFront for performance optimization.

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Re:Static Website Hosting, Storage and Content Delivery on AWS by AndresDepegna on Thursday August 14, 2014 @10:09AM (#8177543)

Interesting, thanks. Do you know if the cache on CloudFront can be configured? I am worried about delivering stale content when the website changes frequently

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Re:Static Website Hosting, Storage and Content Delivery on AWS by SteB on Thursday August 14, 2014 @10:05AM (#8177520)

Thanks for your comment. Actually it doesn't really matter when you are serving static content. No need to think about performance when it comes to S3 for this kind of usage.

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Re:Static Website Hosting, Storage and Content Delivery on AWS by AndresDepegna on Thursday August 14, 2014 @10:07AM (#8177530)

But I want that my static pages are delivered with a low latency to users. Let's imagine I don't add CloudFront to the configuration to save some money, how quick are the GET requests served by S3 compared to a classic webserver?

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