S3 buckets allow you to host static content with a pay-per-get model. No monthly fees and no servers – so I considered how I could use this to redirect a limited number of URLs from an old website to a new site.
It couldn’t be a straight forward as the URLs aren’t the same (so using a CNAME, domain forward, or the S3 Redirect requests options were out), but I wanted to preserve the links, and was previously using a .htaccess file to do this. Enter static hosting, on an empty bucket.
