You Don't Need Big Tech: Website Tutorial [AWS + Cloudflare]

You need your own website now! I'll show you how to host your own website for free using AWS and Cloudflare.

In this tutorial we will create a static website from scratch, and then host it with Amazon Web Services using AWS's S3 storage (available on the free tier). We will set up our AWS S3 bucket using the AWS CLI and creating a dedicated IAM admin user. We will then register a domain with Cloudflare, and route traffic to our content hosted with AWS. Cloudflare offers additional security features in their free plan such as HTTPS/SSL and DNS routing, meaning that you will be able to host your website for free!

This tutorial was inspired by this article from Cloudflare: https://developers.cloudflare.com/sup...

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction: Host your own website with AWS and Cloudflare!
01:20 - Building a simple website with HTML and CSS
04:58 - Previewing our website
06:55 - Creating an Account with Amazon Web Services (Free Tier)
08:10 - Create a user using AWS Identity and Access Management
12:33 - Installing AWS Command Line Interface on Arch Linux
14:58 - Create Programmatic Access Keys with AWS
18:10 - Sign Up with Cloudflare and buy a domain
20:34 - Uploading our website files to a new AWS S3 Bucket
25:34 - Updating our bucket policy and allow public access
27:29 - Preview our S3 Bucket index.html
32:35 - Configuring our DNS records in Cloudflare and setting up HTTPS/SSL
34:25 - The moment we have been waiting for: viewing your website at your domain!
34:50 - Additional security steps (restricting access to our whitelisted IP addresses from Cloudflare)
37:00 - Using vim substitution to format our bash script

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