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Discussion on: Create An AWS S3 Based Website Using Terraform And Github Actions

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Em774

Thank you for the post. That was a good tutorial. You are not talking about DNS, would you not rename the url to access the website?
Also, if you were not using github actions, what are the other options to upload the code to s3?

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Lou (🚀 Open Up The Cloud ☁️) • Edited

Howdy @em774 !

Yeah I thought about it, but ended up deciding not to open up the additional complexity on DNS in the article since there are quite a few moving parts to adding a domain name etc (I assume that's what you mean) — I would happily write a follow up if that's useful for you? How I've preferred to attach domains in the past is through a CloudFront distribution and attaching domains names like that. But we then also need to discuss ACM for an HTTPS cert also.

Instead of Github Actions I guess there's similar hosted ones like Travis CI, Circle CI, Gitlab CI, or other self hosted ones like Jenkins or Drone. I guess it all depends on what you like. I like Github Actions just purely based on the fact most readers will have access to it (from a price perspective) and it's so low barrier to entry since most will also have a Github account.

Also it looks like you're new to dev.to — so welcome! 😄

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Em774

Hey, thanks for your response and welcome. Yes that was exactly what I meant. I would enjoy reading about the next steps if you're up for writing it :)

I have never used Github Actions, I think I'll give it a go soon.

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Lou (🚀 Open Up The Cloud ☁️)

Awesome — let me know how you get on and feel free to message me if you get stuck! :)