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Raptor
Asked: 2016-05-03 19:45:34 +0800 CST

Confusion about Amazon EC2 and S3

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Planning to host a PHP website with MySQL DB in Amazon Web Services, which AWS components should I choose? The website is just a dynamic website with a custom CMS, though a large amount of data are expected to be uploaded to the CMS.

I'm thinking to use Amazon EC2, with the following settings:

  • t2.medium Linux with 1024GB x 2 Magnetic EBS Volume
  • Data Transfer In & Out : 200 & 300 GB/Month

But I heard from others that I can use Amazon S3 to host websites, with the following settings:

  • Storage: 3000GB
  • PUT/COPY/POST/LIST Requests: 20000
  • GET and other Requests: 10000
  • Data Transfer In & Out : 200 & 300 GB/Month
  • CloudFront Monthly Volume: 1000 GB/month (avg. Object size 30KB)

What are the differences? Which should I choose?

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  1. Best Answer

    You can host a static website on Amazon S3. On a static website, individual web pages include static content. They may also contain client-side scripts. By contrast, a dynamic website relies on server-side processing, including server-side scripts such as PHP, JSP, or ASP.NET. Amazon S3 does not support server-side scripting.

    Ref: Hosting a Static Website on Amazon S3

    You may also learn how to host dynamic sites at aws.amazon.com/websites.

    S3 works best for backups, imo. So, go with EBS. To learn different EBS options, please checkout aws.amazon.com/ebs/details/#piops

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