The frontend is where you can easily go serverless. You just need a service to host your website's static files, the user browser will be responsible for rendering the pages and executing the client-side JavaScript code. In this case, the service we will use to host the frontend pages is Amazon S3. You'll learn later how to configure and optimize your website by adding a CDN and the supporting HTTPS connections.
In summary, we are going to cover the following topics:
- Using Amazon S3 to host static files
- Configuring Route 53 to associate your domain name with S3
- Using CloudFront to serve files through a CDN
- Requesting a free SSL/TLS certificate to support HTTPS connections
After this chapter, you'll have learned how to host a frontend in a serverless infrastructure.