Oursky Announces Open Source of a Tool for AWS Web site Hosting Development firm Oursky today announced that it has open-sourced a tool to simplify the process for hosting static Web sites on Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS). AWS Site Manager is a simple command-line tool which leverages Amazon CloudFront (the AWS content delivery network — CDN) and Amazon Simple Storage Service. This tool simplifies the process of setting up and managing static Web sites by removing the complexity associated with using these services. “AWS S3 and CloudFront combined are a great static website hosting solution, but it can be difficult to set up,” states Ben Cheng, one in a group of 40 developers at the Hong Kong company. You need to configure the S3 correctly and configure CloudFront. Also, you should be concerned about best practices like site redirection, syncfile and invalidate CloudFront for updating. These are too complicated to host a static website so we open-sourced our tool AWS site-manager. This tool is now available on GitHub. After configuring AWS credentials and setting up configuration settings, developers can use this command-line tool to navigate into a project directory, create and sync a domain, and then set up AWS credentials. This creates an S3 bucket with domain name and Web site URL. It also syncs local files to S3 and redirects URL (example.com) back to the bucket. The GitHub README.md file states that this does so. The tool can also be used by developers to create HTTPS sites. Cheng stated that the tool is still in its initial stages. Further work is planned for: