I would add that buy your domain separately. All cloud/hosting providers offer domains sometimes for free. You don't want that. Because if you get locked out

I would add that buy your domain separately. All cloud/hosting providers offer domains sometimes for free. You don't want that. Because if you get locked out of an account you get locked out of your domain. Sure you can sometimes get at least domain back, but that usually involves layers and can take weeks or months. If you can (its often not practical, but when it is) hosts your DNS elsewhere as well. And most importantly, have at least one backup somewhere else (if you host on AWS have backup on something that isn't using AWS as a backend)