What is the problem? There are situations where you want to front your public-facing service with a content distribution network (CDN) in this case CloudFront. This is so you can cache content on “the edge” meaning it is closer to your users. You then need to distribute traffic across a series of auto-scaling instances using a load balancer in this case an AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB), this allows you to scale your instances based on traffic behind the load balancer and have them auto-register as targets.

I wanted to create a personal website where I could display information about myself and post technical writing surrounding technologies or ideas I am interested in. For me the site had to be serverless, easy to manage posts and have fully automated deployments. The advantage of this is the less time I have to spend building the website or managing servers the more time I can spend on developing my engineering skills and working on other proejcts.