TIL

I know it's weird to say given when I work, but I built something on AWS for the first time today.

My previous attempts at blogging were to use stuff that was a hosted solution, but this time I wanted to build it myself. I like using markdown and thought that's what I'd like to write in. With that requirement I went searching and found Docusaurus and it looked like exactly what I wanted. Once I got it working locally I figured I'd "just" put it in S3 and be done.

It's funny, but I wasn't entirely sure how to do that. I mean I've used S3 for over a decade, but never as a "customer". I ended up finding this lovely article by Matej; and it worked out pretty well. I had to chase a few other steps to make my public certificate an get my DNS provider setup, but it was bulk of the steps I needed.

Anyways, here it is; my blog hosted as a static site via S3 and Cloud Front. As an added bonus I created a budget so hopefully I don't spend more than I expect.