🛠️ Lab 1 — S3 Portfolio Website

Type: Guided lab Time: ~60 minutes Difficulty: Beginner Cost: Free (within free tier)

🎯 What you’ll build

Deploy a personal portfolio website to AWS — accessible from anywhere in the world. We’ll use S3 for hosting and CloudFront as a CDN to make it fast across West Africa and globally.

📋 Prerequisites

  • AWS account created and signed in
  • You know which AWS region you picked (e.g., eu-west-1)
  • You have an index.html you want to host (or use the starter we provide)

🛠️ AWS Services used

  • S3 (Simple Storage Service) — hosts the static files
  • CloudFront — a CDN that serves your site globally + adds HTTPS
  • IAM — for bucket permissions

📖 The full walkthrough

Open Week1_Lab1_S3_Portfolio.html in your browser. It’s a complete step-by-step guide with screenshots, code snippets, and inline hints.

💡 The HTML file is self-contained — no install, no internet needed once you’ve cloned the repo. Just double-click to open in your browser.

🆘 If you get stuck

  1. Re-read the relevant step in the HTML walkthrough
  2. Check the Common Mistakes callouts (red boxes in the walkthrough)
  3. Expand the 💡 Hint sections for guidance
  4. WhatsApp the group with a screenshot of the error
  5. Tag your post with #week1done

🎓 Submission

  1. Screenshot your live S3 URL in your browser
  2. Screenshot the CloudFront URL too
  3. Post both in the WhatsApp group

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