updating an S3 website with zero downtime

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What would be the best approach to update a static website hosted on an S3 bucket such that there is no downtime. The updates will be done by marketing teams of a company with zero knowledge of cli commands or how to move around in the console. Are there ways to achieve this without having to learn to move around in the console?

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The web site is a collection of static html pages and will be updated using an Html editor. Once edited the marketing team will upload each individual updated file to the S3 bucket. There are no more than 10 such files including html and images. This was currently being hosted on a shared server and we now want to move it to an S3 bucket capable of hosting simple web pages. The preference is to not provision console access for certain users as they are comfortable only using a WYSIWYG html editor and uploading using an FTP client. The editors don't know html and the site doesn't use javascript. I am thinking of writing a batch script to manage the uploads to keep all that cli complexity away so they only work on the HTML in the editor. Looking for the simplest approach to achieve this.

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You can set up a CI/CD pipeline as mentioned here

Update static website in an automated way

The above pipeline generally has a code commit as trigger. It depends what your marketing teams are doing on the content and how they are updating it. If they are updating the content that is hosted on AWS, you can change the trigger to S3 updates. The solution depends on an individual use case, which may require some dev from your side to make it simpler for your marketing teams.

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I'm unsure what you are asking here, because to "update" a static website, surely you must have some technical knowledge in the very basics of web development.

It's important here to define what exactly you mean by update, because again, updating a website and updating a bucket are two completely different things.

Also, S3 has eventual consistency with PUT's (updating) so there will be some minimal downtime.

The easiest way to update an S3 bucket is via the console, and not the CLI. The console is pretty user friendly, and shouldn't take long to get used to.

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