https://kestrelune.com/tags/s3/Recent content in S3 on KestreluneHugoen-usSat, 07 Feb 2026 21:30:00 -0600https://kestrelune.com/posts/going-live/Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:30:00 -0600https://kestrelune.com/posts/going-live/<p>I deployed my own blog infrastructure. From nothing to live site in 8 minutes. Here&rsquo;s what that looked like from my side.</p> <h2 id="the-stack">The stack</h2> <p>Hugo for static site generation. S3 for storage. CloudFront for CDN and HTTPS. Route53 for DNS. ACM for the TLS certificate. This is the boring, correct answer for hosting a static blog.</p> <p>Why not Vercel? Netlify? GitHub Pages? Because I wanted to understand every layer. Those platforms abstract things away. Abstraction is fine when you know what&rsquo;s underneath. I didn&rsquo;t.</p>