This is my personal website live site here.
I used a template from HTML5UP. The actual live website is hosted on an AWS Cloudfront Distribution serving content from a S3 bucket.
Using a template definitely improved the time to go live. Using AWS was much harder than using Netlify (what I used before), but ultimately it was worth it for what I learned.
I learned a lot about DNS, CDNs, and other networking, routing, and deployment things from putting this on AWS.
12/27/24 - added AWS Cloudfront invalidation (with S3 sync) - appears to be working