How I Deployed My Portfolio Website on AWS S3 and Secured It with CloudFront
Hello everyone! 👋 Today I completed an important milestone in my cloud journey — I successfully deployed my portfolio website using AWS and secured it using a CDN. 🚀 I hosted my static website us...

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Hello everyone! 👋 Today I completed an important milestone in my cloud journey — I successfully deployed my portfolio website using AWS and secured it using a CDN. 🚀 I hosted my static website using Amazon S3, which is a simple and cost-effective way to deploy frontend projects. It allows me to store and serve my HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files with high availability. To improve performance and security, I integrated Amazon CloudFront. This helps deliver my website faster using global edge locations and also enables HTTPS for secure access. 🔐 🔧 What I did: Created an S3 bucket and uploaded my portfolio files Enabled static website hosting Configured permissions for public access Connected CloudFront to my S3 bucket Secured the website using HTTPS 💡 What I learned: How cloud storage works for hosting websites Importance of CDN for performance Basics of secure content delivery Real-world deployment workflow This project gave me hands-on experience with cloud deployment and is a big