How I Designed a Security-First AWS Architecture for My Website
How I designed my AWS website around a private S3 origin, CloudFront, temporary deployment identity, validation, and explicit security trade-offs.
Bruno Arruda9 min read
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Building and Securing a Production Static Website on AWS
Hands-on AWS cloud security case study using CloudFront, private S3 with OAC, DNSSEC, CSP, monitoring, and keyless GitHub OIDC deployment.
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Amazon Route 53 · Amazon CloudFront · Amazon S3 · AWS Certificate Manager · AWS WAF · Amazon CloudWatch · Amazon SNS · AWS CloudTrail · AWS Identity and Access Management · AWS Security Token Service
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Private origin · Origin Access Control · DNSSEC · TLS · Content Security Policy · Security headers · Web application firewall · Monitoring and alerting · Audit logging · Federated identity · Least privilege
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