This is the setup I use. The "1 extra step" for me is a tool called s3_website: https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s

This is the setup I use. The "1 extra step" for me is a tool called s3_website: https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website It makes publishing to S3/CloudFront extremely painless, and supports advanced thing like page redirects and Cache-Control settings per file type.