A utility that configures S3 and Route53 to host a static website on your domain.

Features:

• Supports Root Domain Website Hosting!
• Creates a bucket and a route53 record that points to it
• Takes care of creating new hosted zone if needed
• Bucket names starting with www. are not supported due to HTTP 409 - A conflicting conditional operation is currently in progress

Requirements:

Any system with python and pip (Tested on Ubuntu Desktop 13.10 and 14.04).

The boto credentials have to be discoverable via environment variables, ~/.boto file or IAM role.

Installation:

sudo pip install boto
wget https://raw.github.com/flypunk/s3host/master/s3host.py -O s3host.py
chmod +x s3host

Usage:

./s3host.py domainname

Feedback and pull requests are welcome!