AKHILESH / CLOUD NOTES

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A small notebook
for the cloud.

Notes on how a website travels from a storage bucket to your browser. Built by Akhilesh for CSCE 412.

Follow the request →
A browser requests a website from CloudFront, which retrieves files from a private S3 bucket.
The basic path: browser → CloudFront → private S3 storage.

Start with the basics.

A static website is made of files: HTML for content, CSS for appearance, and JavaScript for interaction. It can run without an application server.

This notebook explains the pieces behind that setup, from domain names to HTTPS certificates.

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