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Tired of reading outdated blog posts or combing through verbose AWSdocumentation just to figure out how to deploy your blog? Deploying staticwebsites on AWS shouldn't be soscary.

SCAR is a deployment stack that make it easy for you to deploy astatic website with a custom domain, SSL, and a CDN. All you need is an AWSaccount to get started in three simple steps:

Find the name servers from your newly createdRoute 53 hosted zone,then update thename server settings at your registrar.

Find and expand the details of the certificate for your domain in the AWS console, then click the"Create record in Route 53" buttons in the two prompts for validation.

That's all, folks!

Use theCloudFormationconsole to check the status of the stack. If everything went smoothly, thestack deployment event timeline should look something like this:

After the stack has been created and deployed, you can upload the contents ofyour website directly with theS3 console,or use theAWS CLI for programmatic control.

SCAR is a deployment stack for static websites running entirely on AWS, usingS3,CloudFront,Amazon Certificate Manager, andRoute 53. For a givendomain such asexample.com, the default SCAR stack will create the following:

• Two S3 buckets, one for storing the contents of your static website(www.example.com) and another for redirecting requests for the apex domain(example.com) to thewww subdomain.
• Two CloudFront distributions, one for each S3 bucket.
• One ACM public SSL/TLS certificate for bothexample.com and*.example.com
• One Route 53 hosted zone, with anA record for each CloudFront distribution.

The behavior for the default SCAR stack is to redirect all requests for the apexdomain to thewww subdomain, and to redirect allhttp requests tohttps.All content will be stored in and served out of thewww S3 bucket.

Additional stacks with slight variations from the default stack are alsoavailable:

Behavior	Default	WWW->Apex	Apex only
Apex domain requests	Redirect towww
www subdomain requests		Redirect to apex domain	N/A
http requests	Redirect tohttps	Redirect tohttps	Redirect tohttps
		(Coming Soon)	(Coming Soon)

• GoDaddy
• Google Domains
• Squarespace

For most sites, it will likely cost less than $1 per month. The cost for a Route 53 hosted zone is fixed at $0.50/month; the remaining CloudFront and S3 costs depend on the levels of traffic, but typically amount to a few cents for small levels of traffic.

TheAWS CloudFormation Designer tool allows drag-and-drop creation of templates, and also creates diagrams from existing JSON or YAML template files.

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