Static Website Hosting

• Blob storages access model is acecss over https and this is how we access websites as well
• Using Blob storage for hosting websites (Static websites – it has only html, css and javascript, image, videos)
• To make the content cache across different edge locations we use content delivery networks,
• Both AWS and Azure offer this. The advantage of using this approach is
  • no need to worry about scaling
  • latency is address over CDN
• For screenshots refer classroom video

Hosting static website on S3

• Create a bucket
• upload all the necessary assets to run your website
• Now navigate to properties => Static Website Hosting and enable
  
  
  
• Now enable cloud front with s3 as origin
• Exercise: Hosting static website on Azure Storage account