For me the biggest appeal of static sites is that I now have significantly less attack surface to think about. The chances of someone finding an RCE in Amazon

For me the biggest appeal of static sites is that I now have significantly less attack surface to think about. The chances of someone finding an RCE in Amazon S3 are way less than than the same occurring on some old Apache 2 server where auto-update broke a couple months ago because of the linux kernel headers eating up all my inodes.