Amazon S3 has some new features if you use it to host your website


Amazon S3 has some new features if you use it to host your website

Amazon has rolled out some new features on their S3 platform for users who use it or want to use it for a static website hosting.

The company is now allowing hosting of web content on the root of a domain name.

Users also get the ability to use redirection rules through their S3 account.

Amazon said:

Your website can now be accessed without specifying the “www” in the web address. Previously, you needed to use a proxy server to redirect requests for your root domain to your Amazon S3 hosted website. This introduced additional costs, extra work, and another potential point of failure. Now, you can take advantage of S3’s high availability and scalability for both “www” and root domain addresses. In order to do this, you must use Amazon Route 53 to host the DNS data for your domain.