How to host a website on AWS

Question

Can I load or host a website using AWS? I certainly know AWS provides you with various services. I am just not certain if I can host a website and use my my own domain for the same. Please Help....

Answer 1

Certainly, it can be used to do so (ie host a website)

Amazon Web Services offers cloud web hosting solutions that provide businesses, non-profits, and governmental organizations with low-cost ways to deliver their websites and web applications. Whether you’re looking for a marketing, rich-media, or ecommerce website, AWS offers a wide-range of website hosting options, and we’ll help you select the one that is right for you. 

This link should certainly suffice your needs:

https://aws.amazon.com/websites/

Answer 2

You can definitely use AWS to host a website. You can use the domain registration service to register your new domain. If you already own a domain and simply want to use AWS for hosting your content, you could do that as well. Simply point your CNAME record to the elastic IP that is associated with your EC2 instance.

Answer 3

Yes, You can definitely use AWS to host a website.

Hosting a Static Website on AWS. You can host a static website on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). ... Amazon Web Services (AWS) also has resources for hosting dynamic websites.

Answer 4

Yes! you can host a fully static web site in a S3 bucket. You can have client side scripting, just no database with server side logic (So static HTML and no PHP/RoR etc)

More info:
Hosting a Static Website on Amazon S3