Static hosting
Host a plain HTML/CSS site in an S3 bucket, distribute it worldwide with CloudFront, and point a real domain at it using Route 53. This is exactly what's running on the page you're reading.
Lab guide →Mount Kenya University · Thika Campus
A hands-on session on Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront — the DNS and content-delivery layer that makes AWS applications fast, reliable, and reachable from anywhere. Led by Allan Kariuki, AWS Community Builder.
What's rendering in your browser right now is a static site sitting in an S3 bucket, distributed globally through CloudFront, and reachable through a friendly name via Route 53. No servers. No containers. Just objects and edges.
What you'll learn
Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations — the physical backbone every other service sits on.
Hosted zones, record types, routing policies, and health checks that decide where traffic goes.
Caching, edge locations, origins, and how CloudFront shaves hundreds of milliseconds off every request.
Alias records, custom domains, and TLS — connecting a human-friendly name to a global distribution.
Same front door, two different back rooms: an S3 bucket versus an Application Load Balancer.
Cache invalidation, least-privilege bucket policies, and sane TTLs for production workloads.
Agenda · 5 hours
Two labs, one front door
Host a plain HTML/CSS site in an S3 bucket, distribute it worldwide with CloudFront, and point a real domain at it using Route 53. This is exactly what's running on the page you're reading.
Lab guide →Swap the origin: an Application Load Balancer fronting live compute, still delivered through CloudFront and still resolved through Route 53. Same edge, a very different back room.
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Come prepared