Agree. Except I would keep in mind that AWS data egress is very expensive, so if there is any heavy media involved, you would also want to put a CDN in front of

Agree. Except I would keep in mind that AWS data egress is very expensive, so if there is any heavy media involved, you would also want to put a CDN in front of s3 with proper caching or you could find yourself with a hell of a bill from AWS. So if you are serving up just a few megabytes and hit a few million page views you may find an AWS bill for a few thousand dollars.