This site has nothing to do with Google!

Or Corey Quinn, of LastWeekInAWS fame.

Okay, maybe it has a little something to do with Corey Quinn.

Get the code for this site

This site is hosted on CloudFront, and all the code to set up your own static site with CloudFront is included in the GitHub repo.

Check out the code for this site on GitHub

What is This? Why Does it Exist?

Really, it's a combination of three tweets.

Why did I build this after those three tweets?

First, the domain

If you're a programmer, you know that when you have an idea, the first thing you do is buy a domain. There were all these great threads yesterday about what other sites Corey should launch. On a complete whim, I bought lastweekingoogle.com. At the time, I had no idea what I would do with it.

You may be wondering: what about LastWeekInGoogleCloud.com? Or LastWeekinGCP.com? Well, they were already taken. I have my hunches about who owns them. I also bought LastWeekInAlibaba.com. You never know when they might suddenly become a real player.

Then, the site (hosting)

I've seen lots of folks struggle to find an easy way to host a static site on AWS. Sure, it's "just S3 and CloudFront," but wiring those together can be hard. So, I thought I'd build a fully-functional demo.

The code for the entire site - including the infrastructure - is hosted on GitHub . It deploys:

  • Route53 hosted zone for the domain's DNS
  • S3 bucket to hold the site (this page)
  • Two CloudFront distributions - one for www, and one for the apex
  • Two Lambda@Edge functions
  • An SSL certificate using the new auto-verification feature that @mbarneyjr tweeted about.

What's next?

  • I hope if you need to host a static site, you'll check out the code .
  • If the code helps you, please tweet at @jthomerson.
  • If you want occasional serverless tips and tricks, please follow @jthomerson.
  • If your name is Corey Quinn and you want the site, you can have it.
    I'm really not going to write a newsletter with it.

Oh, one last thing...

Why host a site about Google on Amazon?

Well, like I said above - the site has nothing to do with Google.

But also, if it really was a site about what happened last week in Google, how could it ever tell you that Google shut down their Cloud Platform ? I mean, that's what they do, right @killedbygoogle?