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125. A first look at CloudFront Hosting Toolkit

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In this episode, we discuss the newly announced CloudFront Hosting Toolkit from AWS. We provide an overview of the tool, which aims to simplify deploying modern front-end applications to AWS while retaining infrastructure control. We discuss the current capabilities and limitations and share our hands-on experiences trying out the tool. We also talk about alternatives like Vercel and Amplify, and the tradeoffs between convenience VS control. Overall, the toolkit shows promise but is still early-stage. We are excited to see it evolve to support more frameworks and use cases.


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In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

  • CloudFront Hosting Toolkit official announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/introducing-cloudfront-hosting-toolkit/
  • Previous episode "80. Can you do private static websites on AWS?": https://awsbites.com/80-can-you-do-private-static-websites-on-aws/
  • Previous episode "3. How do you deploy a static website on AWS?": https://awsbites.com/3-how-do-you-deploy-a-static-website-on-aws/
  • CloudFront functions: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudfront-functions.html
  • CloudFront Key-Value Store: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/kvs-with-functions.html
  • Sandro Volpicella's article on CloudFront Hosting Toolkit: https://blog.awsfundamentals.com/cloudfront-hosting-toolkit
  • Open Next: https://open-next.js.org/
  • Coolify: https://coolify.io/



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