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If I may ask a simple question which reveals my ignorance about AWS and anything too technical, but what is the actual CMS being used for a website hosted on Am

by exodust 10y ago

If I may ask a simple question which reveals my ignorance about AWS and anything too technical, but what is the actual CMS being used for a website hosted on Amazon? Take a simple website with text and images that you want to update via an easy to use CMS, what is the AWS service that is the CMS seen by a user looking after the website? Does one exist or is it a matter of needing to make such a CMS? Edit: thanks for the replies. I had a feeling AWS was more a "parts" bin rather than anything approaching a ready-to-go hosting + CMS, but thought I'd check.

throwaway2016a 10y ago
The parent question was about static site hosting so one would likely use a static site generator like Jekyll. If you want a CMS you need to either install it on a server (via Amazon EC2) or use a serverless product like AWS Lambda (which lets you run functions on demand. But with a static site generator you will usually run and test your site locally before it generates static .html files and pushes to S3. But S3 just hosts static content. The only thing it can do that approaches anything dynamic are redirects. You can also lock down permissions by role but you wouldn't want to do that for a public static site.
DocG 10y ago
Amazon offers basically hardware. You rent a piece of server resourses. What operating system, what CMS you use is up to you, but prepeared to install and configure everything. But, they also offer plenty of free (and good) "ready made and pre configured" packages for people to use (for exampe wordpress, bitbucket etc.). You can search them here https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/ https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/
- throwaway2016a 10y ago
  > Amazon offers basically hardware. AWS is way more than hardware. Lambda - on demand code execution Route53 - DNS and domain registration S3 - File storage with redundancy and an HTTP interface RDS - Managed relational databases DynamoDB - NoSQL key/value store with indexing and scanning SQS - Job queue-ing without needing to manage servers SES - Email service with the ability to both send and receive email and also trigger a Lambda function when email is received SNS - Fan out notifications with multiple destinations (iOS, Android, Email, SMS, webhook, etc) IAM KMS - Manage your encryption keys EC2 - Ok, this one actually is hardware Git hosting, docker file hosting. Etc... That is just off the top of my head. However, if you want to avoid vendor lock-in, then yes, it is just hardware.
  - DocG 10y ago
    You are correct. They are also huge ecommerce site and book store. I understood previous question as "What CMS amazon is offering for clients in website hosting", to where I think my answer still stands.
    - throwaway2016a 10y ago
      > They are also huge eCommerce site and book store. That is a complete miss-categorization. Amazon AWS is a single business unit with EC2 being a single product inside of it. When people say Amazon Web Services it very clearly means more than just EC2. To compare EC2 to SQS (simple queuing service) and saying they are different is the same as comparing Amazon Book sales to Amazon Clothing Sales. It is a distinction that not many people would make. Actually in a way it is more like saying that Amazon Selling the Twilight novels is different than Amazon selling college textbooks.
dgemm 10y ago
There is no single answer - AWS isn't a single hosting service, but instead more of a "parts bin" that you can use to build simple or complex services. I don't think it's what you're looking for in this case.

by exodust 10y ago

throwaway2016a 10y ago

The parent question was about static site hosting so one would likely use a static site generator like Jekyll. If you want a CMS you need to either install it on a server (via Amazon EC2) or use a serverless product like AWS Lambda (which lets you run functions on demand. But with a static site generator you will usually run and test your site locally before it generates static .html files and pushes to S3. But S3 just hosts static content. The only thing it can do that approaches anything dynamic are redirects. You can also lock down permissions by role but you wouldn't want to do that for a public static site.

DocG 10y ago

Amazon offers basically hardware. You rent a piece of server resourses. What operating system, what CMS you use is up to you, but prepeared to install and configure everything. But, they also offer plenty of free (and good) "ready made and pre configured" packages for people to use (for exampe wordpress, bitbucket etc.). You can search them here https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/ https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/

throwaway2016a 10y ago
> Amazon offers basically hardware. AWS is way more than hardware. Lambda - on demand code execution Route53 - DNS and domain registration S3 - File storage with redundancy and an HTTP interface RDS - Managed relational databases DynamoDB - NoSQL key/value store with indexing and scanning SQS - Job queue-ing without needing to manage servers SES - Email service with the ability to both send and receive email and also trigger a Lambda function when email is received SNS - Fan out notifications with multiple destinations (iOS, Android, Email, SMS, webhook, etc) IAM KMS - Manage your encryption keys EC2 - Ok, this one actually is hardware Git hosting, docker file hosting. Etc... That is just off the top of my head. However, if you want to avoid vendor lock-in, then yes, it is just hardware.
- DocG 10y ago
  You are correct. They are also huge ecommerce site and book store. I understood previous question as "What CMS amazon is offering for clients in website hosting", to where I think my answer still stands.
  - throwaway2016a 10y ago
    > They are also huge eCommerce site and book store. That is a complete miss-categorization. Amazon AWS is a single business unit with EC2 being a single product inside of it. When people say Amazon Web Services it very clearly means more than just EC2. To compare EC2 to SQS (simple queuing service) and saying they are different is the same as comparing Amazon Book sales to Amazon Clothing Sales. It is a distinction that not many people would make. Actually in a way it is more like saying that Amazon Selling the Twilight novels is different than Amazon selling college textbooks.

dgemm 10y ago

There is no single answer - AWS isn't a single hosting service, but instead more of a "parts bin" that you can use to build simple or complex services. I don't think it's what you're looking for in this case.