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How To Host, Secure, and Deliver Static Websites on Amazon Web Services ebook and video course

"How To Host, Secure, and Deliver Static Websites on Amazon Web Services" is a book and video course that cuts through the sea of information to accelerate your learning of AWS. Giving you a learning path that enables you to master AWS basics and technical essentials by actually using services to solve a real-world problem.

In this course, you focus on how to host a static website on AWS, deliver and secure static websites with CloudFront, and leverage the agility of AWS Lambda to add new features at lightning speed.

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What's Included

95-page AWS Essentials Book

95 pages of content dedicated to helping you grasp AWS basics and technical essentials. No fluff or filler, just content focused on solving the problem of hosting static websites, leveraging security best practices, and optimizing delivery using Amazon Web Services.

90 Minutes of In Depth Video

Every chapter of the book covered in even more depth focused on leveraging the AWS services that enable a solution. Watch me configure, utilize, and debug AWS right alongside you.

Direct Access to Learn AWS By Using It Slack Channel

Work with others who are learning Amazon Web Services right along with you. From beginners to experts, everyone is looking to expedite their learning and help others by answering questions about static website hosting, leveraging S3, and learning the basics of other AWS services.

Table of Contents

It's time to quit getting frustrated and overwhelmed by the massive sea of information surrounding Amazon Web Services. Start expediting your learning of AWS by focusing on learning a subset of six different services as you actually use them to build a solution to a real-world problem. This is much more than just an AWS beginners guide, this book is full of tidbits for beginners and experts alike.

Learn how to master hosting a static website on AWS S3. Use security best practices in AWS to secure your account and learn how to use CloudFront and AWS Certificate Manager to secure your website. Get a taste of the agility AWS provides developers and businesses by using Simple Email Service (SES) with AWS Lambda and API Gateway for serverless contact forms.

Once you are a seasoned AWS developer, explore more advanced cloud best practices such as Infrastructure as Code, Continous Integration and Continous Deployment. Explore how you can leverage Terraform, CodePipeline, and CodeBuild to implement continuous deployment of your static website.

Quit Getting Lost in the Sea Of Information

  • Our Learning Framework
  • A Brief History Lesson On AWS
  • The Problem We Will Use For Context While Learning
  • When The Dust Settles

Learn S3 While Cutting Your Web Hosting Cost To A Dollar

  • Under A Dollar For Web Hosting
  • Every Bucket Must Have A Name
  • Configuring Your S3 Bucket for Static Website Hosting
  • DNS Records For Your Bucket Urls
  • Uploading Your Static Website
  • Benefits Of This Solution

Enhancing the Security of Our Static Website with WAF

  • Creating Our Web Application Firewall
  • How To Bait Bad Bots With A Honeypot API
  • Creating Our Bad Bot Bait
  • Create A Lambda Function For Updating Our WAF Condition
  • Programming The Lambda Function
  • Configure The Honeypot In API Gateway
  • Adding Our API Origin To CloudFront
  • The Benefits Of AWS WAF

Getting Setup With AWS

  • Getting Started With Amazon Web Services
  • 3 Things You Need To Do Before Using Your New Account
  • Configuring Your CLI
  • Other Considerations For New Accounts

Deliver to the World Instantly Using CloudFront

  • Creating The Static Website Distribution
  • Updating DNS Records
  • Optimize The Distribution For Caching
  • Busting The Cache via Invalidations
  • Leveraging Free SSL with AWS Certificate Manager
  • Secure Low Latency Delivery via CloudFront

Optimizing Our Use Case and Extending Our Learning

  • Extending Our Learning
  • Building A Serverless Contact Form
  • Configure Simple Email Service To Send Email To Ourselves
  • Creating The Role Our AWS Lambda Function Needs To Send Email
  • Leveraging Lambda To Process Our Serverless Contact Form Model
  • Testing Our API Gateway Endpoint
  • Integrating Our Serverless Contact Form Into Our Static Website
  • Leveraging AWS Agility To Iterate Quickly

🏆 Bonus Chapter #1: Going Beyond the AWS Console — How to Implement Infrastructure as Code for AWS Infrastructure

  • The Benefits of Infrastructure As Code for Our Use Case
  • Tools, Tools, Tools and More Tools for IaC
  • Getting Started with Terraform
  • Our Static Website Infrastructure as Code
  • Recapping the Benefits, Downsides and Tools for Infrastructure as Code

🏆 Bonus Chapter #2: How to Continuously Deploy a Static Website in Style Using GitHub and AWS

  • Wait, What Is Continuous Deployment?
  • Configuring Our Build Trigger With GitHub and AWS
  • Creating Our CI/CD Pipeline in AWS Using Terraform
  • Overview of Our Deployment Pipeline Using AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild
  • Testing, Building and Deploying Our Static Website Using Buildspec
  • Triggering AWS CodePipeline from GitHub
  • Bam! We Have Continuous Deployment
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  • Access to the exclusive Learn AWS By Using It Slack Channel
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  • Over 90 minutes of screencasts, every chapter of the book covered in even more depth as I ride along with you
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  • 2 Bonus Chapters on Infrastructure as Code and Continous Deployment
  • Access to the exclusive Learn AWS By Using It Slack Channel
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About Kyle Galbraith

About the Author

Hey! I'm @kylegalbraith, senior software engineer, AWS Certified Professional Solutions Architect, blogger, and aspiring entrepreneur.

I teach everything I know on my blog, through Twitter chats, and the occassional screencast. I love travelling, teaching, and talking peoples ears off about technology.

Frequently Asked Questions

I don't know anything about Amazon Web Services, will this product help me get started?

Absolutely! We are approaching AWS with fresh eyes in this course and assuming that we are totally new to this cloud computing thing. This course will help you learn AWS basics and technical essentials without feeling overwhelmed or frustrated.

Can I purchase multiple licenses for my team at a reduced price?

Yes! Click here to check out the team licensing packages. You can buy licenses of The Total Package for teams of up to 5, 10, or 20 depending on what fits your needs.

What prerequisites do I need to have before taking this course?

Basic programming knowledge in a language of your choice is going to be helpful. You should also have access to your own set of DNS records, an IDE of your choosing, and the ability to sign up for an AWS account.

Is a static website required?

The best way to learn is to work on a real thing. No worries if you don't have a static website, we will create one using Gatsby static site generator. If you already have one feel free to skip the videos that are just about the static website.

I have more questions!

Great! Shoot me an email at kyle.galbraith459@gmail.com

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