Lab 01 — S3 Static Website Hosting

An S3 bucket is a container that holds your website files. The bucket name must be globally unique.

1. In the AWS Console search bar type S3 and click it
2. Click Create bucket
3. Bucket name: enter a unique name e.g. my-cloudpracticelabs-site
4. AWS Region: select US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1
5. Uncheck Block all public access
6. Check the acknowledgement box that appears
7. Leave all other settings at defaults
8. Click Create bucket

1. Click on your new bucket name
2. Click the Properties tab
3. Scroll to the bottom and find Static website hosting
4. Click Edit
5. Select Enable
6. Index document: index.html
7. Error document: error.html
8. Click Save changes
9. Scroll back down to Static website hosting — copy the Bucket website endpoint URL

By default S3 buckets are private. You need a bucket policy to allow anyone to read your files.

1. Click the Permissions tab
2. Scroll to Bucket policy and click Edit
3. Paste the policy below — replace YOUR-BUCKET-NAME with your actual bucket name
4. Click Save changes

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "PublicReadGetObject",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": "*",
      "Action": "s3:GetObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::YOUR-BUCKET-NAME/*"
    }
  ]
}

1. Click the Objects tab
2. Click Upload
3. Click Add files and select your index.html and error.html
4. Click Upload
5. Wait for the green success banner

1. Paste the Bucket website endpoint URL into your browser
2. You should see your website live on the internet
3. Try a URL that doesn't exist — you should see your error.html page