How to create static website hosting using S3

Sometimes you need a static website for your company or clients, static websites are still a thing that can be useful and can be used for many tasks such as: information, LP or any other content that does not require a database.

How to create a static website hosting in a few lines of code?

You only need three functions:
1. create bucket
2. create bucket policy
3. enable static website hosting

also don’t forget uploading your website files to the bucket.

Additional tasks to make your website faster and add SSL

Create CloudFront distribution and add your website bucket as origin
Create ACM certificate and add it to the cloudFront for the relevant bucket

If you want to download those functions to create your hosted bucket it’s here

import boto3
import json

# enter bucket name
BUCKET_NAME = 'new-s3-bucket-spinningops'

def s3_client(): s3 = boto3.client('s3') return s3

def create_bucket(bucket_name):
    """ creates a new s3 bucket """
    return s3_client().create_bucket( Bucket=bucket_name,
    CreateBucketConfiguration={ 'LocationConstraint': 'eu-central-1' } )

def create_bucket_policy():
    bucket_policy = { 'Version': '2012-10-17', 'Statement': [ {
        'Sid': 'PublicRead',
        'Effect': 'Allow',
        'Principal': '*',
        'Action': ['s3:*'],
        'Resource': f'arn:aws:s3:::{BUCKET_NAME}/*' } ] }
    # Convert the policy from JSON dict to string
    policy_string = json.dumps(bucket_policy)
    # Set the new policy return s3_client().put_bucket_policy(
    Bucket=BUCKET_NAME,
    Policy=policy_string )

def enable_static_website_hosting():
    """ modify bucket for website hosting """
    website_configuration = {
        'ErrorDocument': {'Key': 'error.html'},
        'IndexDocument': {'Suffix': 'index.html'}, }
    return s3_client().put_bucket_website( Bucket=BUCKET_NAME,
    WebsiteConfiguration=website_configuration )

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ''' execute the function you want, uncomment to reuse
    functions '''
    # create_bucket(BUCKET_NAME)
    # host_static_website(WEBSITE_BUCKET_NAME)
    # create_bucket_policy() enable_static_website_hosting()