Deploying a Single-Page Application (SPA) using S3 in static hosting mode with public bucket access enabled can introduce significant risks.
In this article, the author shares a secure and scalable approach to deploy a SPA following AWS best practices, using S3 for storage, CloudFront as a CDN and securing everything with Amazon Certificate Manager.
The approach provides key advantages, including enhanced security by using CloudFront to restrict direct access to the S3 bucket and improved performance by serving content closer to users via caching at edge locations worldwide.
The article presents a step-by-step approach to deploying your SPA on AWS with S3 and CloudFront correctly, and it includes prerequisites, such as an AWS account and a build output for a SPA.
It covers creating an S3 bucket, uploading your app, configuring CloudFront with OAI or OAC for restricting direct access to S3, CloudFront Rewrite Rules to handle rewrites for our SPA, and caching static assets.
It also covers linking a custom domain and requesting AWS to issue an SSL certificate for our custom domain. It's essential to add a custom domain name to access the new SPA.
This tutorial aims to deliver cybersecurity as well as functional benefits to Single-page-Application developers using AWS.
Caching static assets with CloudFront also shows that the performance improvement is significant.
Therefore, following this tutorial can help developers ensure that their single-page applications are both secure and scalable when deploying on AWS.
Deploying a single-page application following this tutorial can help developers ensure their application is secure and scalable when deploying on AWS.