For many, Amazon S3’s cloud-infrastructure provides backend caching functionality.
Up until recently, it’s been widely used by many of the most popular dynamic sites and web applications to serve up media and similar content.
This week, Amazon announced that they are now hosting entire sites.
We’re excited to announce new features that make it easy to host static websites on Amazon S3. Customers already use Amazon S3 to host images, video, and other content for their website, but until now they haven’t been able to effectively host their entire website on Amazon S3.
Nice – I wonder how many people will actually begin serving all of their files via the cloud versus a hybrid between their own servers and services like S3?
You can read the full article here.
Ben Miller says
Is this for static sites only, or can you actually run PHP and Database-driven sites entirely on S3?
Tom McFarlin says
It’s for static files, mainly. Media and then markup documents.
Scripts and databases will have to be housed elsewhere.