[Kalium]

You're right! For sophisticated needs like running a server, it's not reasonable to expect a random nontechnical person to take on all that education.

This person clearly knows enough to be aware that they have good options for hosting a static site without ever having to admin a server. Frankly the simple S3+CloudFront+Route53 setup can be done in an hour or less following lots of clearly written documents that don't require one to be a seasoned sysadmin. And it'll cost less than $2/mo.

[cauterized]

You're right. Though frankly, the S3 and cloudfront docs are terrible - especially if you're not already highly familiar with the services and Amazons offerings in general, but even if you are. They don't give nearly enough context or definitions of terms.

I haven't been particularly impressed by any blog posts on the topic either. What resources specifically would you recommend to someone new to the stack?

[Kalium]

AWS has a pretty good doc for this specific case, actually - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website...

But this is decent too - https://www.lambrospetrou.com/articles/migrate-to-aws-static...