Migrating a static Hugo blog to AWS Amplify

This is a cross-post from Catawiki's blog

Fond of Cloud, Open Source and new technologies, Aristide leads the implementation of security controls on Catawiki’s Auction platform. In this publication he describes the historical technical considerations that applied to his personal website architecture built on AWS since its creation in 2016 to today.

Blog’s Origins

Back in 2016, I used to work as a Django developer, and as such, after starting working on AWS, I decided to host a personal website as a Django blog on AWS Elastic beanstalk.
The blog was extremely minimalistic and configured to use two small AWS VMs, one for the application and another one for a Postgres database hosted in a private subnet. It also involved an S3 bucket to load some static content such as images.