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A few weeks ago I used AWS S3 for 301 redirects, with Cloudflare on top to cache these requests, few as they were. This effectively maintains a handful of links which redirect somewhere useful, while directing all other traffic to this domain.
The results are great! The switch to S3 was made on the 9th, and a Cloudflare page rule added on the 10th – at which point over 60% of requests became cached.
Continue reading “AWS S3 Redirects with Cloudflare Page Rules – Fast and Free”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.
