Host a Static Website on AWS s3 with appropriate bucket policies and reduced latency configuration using AWS CloudFront CDN (Content Delivery Network)

Deploying and running the program

Note: some values in this example will be different from run to run. These values are indicated with ***.

1. Create a new stack:

   $ pulumi stack init dev

2. Set Config parameters in Pulumi:

   a) Set the AWS Region to be used for deploying the cloud resources

   $ pulumi config set aws:region us-west-2

   b) Set the accesskey for the AWS account to be used

   $ pulumi config set aws:accessKey <access_key>

   c) Set the secretkey for the AWS account to be used

   $ pulumi config set --secure aws:secretKey <secret_key>

3. Run pulumi up to preview and deploy changes. After the preview is shown you will be prompted if you want to continue or not.

   $ pulumi up
   Previewing update (dev):
   
       Type                              Name                                Plan       
   +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack               pulumi-aws-s3-py-dev                create     
   +   ├─ aws:s3:Bucket                  website-bucket                      create     
   +   ├─ aws:s3:BucketObject            index.html                          create     
   +   ├─ aws:s3:BucketObject            python.png                          create     
   +   ├─ aws:s3:BucketObject            favicon.png                         create     
   +   └─ aws:s3:BucketPolicy            static-hosting-bucket-policy        create
   +   └─ aws:cloudfront:Distribution    static-hosting-s3Distribution       create
   
   Resources:
       + 6 to create
   
   Do you want to perform this update?
   > yes
     no
     details

4. To see the resources that were created, run pulumi stack output:

   $ pulumi stack output
   Current stack outputs (2):
       OUTPUT                                           VALUE
       bucket_name                                      static-hosting-bucket-****
       cdn                                              ****.cloudfront.net

5. To see that the S3 objects exist, you can either use the AWS Console or the AWS CLI:

   $ aws s3 ls `pulumi stack output bucket_name`
   2022-08-17 15:40:47      13731 favicon.png
   2022-08-17 15:40:48        249 index.html

6. Open the CDN URL in a browser to see both the rendered HTML and Python splash image:

   $ pulumi stack output cdn
   ***.cloudfront.net

7. To clean up resources, run pulumi destroy and answer the confirmation question at the prompt.