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S3 for Dynamic Websites

S3 Standard offers high durability, availability, and performance object storage for frequently accessed data. Because it delivers low latency and high throughput, S3 Standard is appropriate for a wide variety of use cases, including cloud applications, dynamic websites, content distribution, mobile and gaming applications, and big data analytics.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/

Why do they say about dynamic websites?

Carlos Amador

It has to be taken in context. S3 can be used to host a static website – they even provide the option to enable a static web site. S3 is mainly used for storage and in this use it can be used to hold data "that is used for a dynamic site" – it doesn’t say to host a dynamic site. Hopefully that clarifies the difference and explains why the say dynamic websites.

Serge K

makes sense 🙂

1 Answers

You can use Amazon S3 to host a static website. On a static website, individual webpages include static content. They might also contain client-side scripts.

By contrast, a dynamic website relies on server-side processing, including server-side scripts such as PHP, JSP, or ASP.NET. Amazon S3 does not support server-side scripting, but AWS has other resources for hosting dynamic websites. To learn more about website hosting on AWS, see Web Hosting.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/WebsiteHosting.html

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jwesley

That doesn’t explain why Amazon uses the term "dynamic website" in this case.

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