# Hosting a static website using Amazon S3
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You can use Amazon S3 to host a static website. On a *static* website, individual webpages include static content. They might also contain client-side scripts.

**Note**  
We recommend that you use [Amazon Amplify Hosting](https://docs.amazonaws.cn//amplify/latest/userguide/welcome.html.html) to host static website content stored on S3. Amplify Hosting is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy your websites on a globally available content delivery network (CDN) powered by Amazon CloudFront, allowing secure static website hosting.   
With Amazon Amplify Hosting, you can select the location of your objects within your general purpose bucket, deploy your content to a managed CDN, and generate a public HTTPS URL for your website to be accessible anywhere. For more information about Amplify Hosting, see [Deploying a static website to Amazon Amplify Hosting from an S3 general purpose bucket](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/website-hosting-amplify.html) and [Deploying a static website from S3 using the Amplify console](https://docs.amazonaws.cn//amplify/latest/userguide/deploy--from-amplify-console.html) in the *Amazon Amplify Console User Guide*.

For more information about hosting a static website on Amazon S3, including instructions and step-by-step walkthroughs, see the following topics.

**Important**  
If the bucket that you're using to host your static website has been encrypted using server-side encryption with Amazon Key Management Service (Amazon KMS) keys (SSE-KMS), you must create an Amazon CloudFront distribution to serve your website because SSE-KMS doesn't support anonymous users. When you create your CloudFront distribution, you must use origin access control (OAC) instead of origin access identity (OAI) to secure the origin. OAI doesn't support SSE-KMS, so you must use OAC instead.  
For more information about OAC, see [Restrict access to an Amazon S3 origin](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/private-content-restricting-access-to-s3.html) in the *Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide*. For a tutorial that shows how to host a static website using Amazon CloudFront, see [Tutorial: Hosting on-demand streaming video with Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53](tutorial-s3-cloudfront-route53-video-streaming.md).

**Topics**
+ [Website endpoints](WebsiteEndpoints.md)
+ [Enabling website hosting](EnableWebsiteHosting.md)
+ [Configuring an index document](IndexDocumentSupport.md)
+ [Configuring a custom error document](CustomErrorDocSupport.md)
+ [Setting permissions for website access](WebsiteAccessPermissionsReqd.md)
+ [(Optional) Logging web traffic](LoggingWebsiteTraffic.md)
+ [(Optional) Configuring a webpage redirect](how-to-page-redirect.md)
+ [Using cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)](cors.md)
+ [Static website tutorials](static-website-tutorials.md)