[biftek]

I do just that actually. Although my reasoning was more about how insanely cheap and reliable it is, and wanting to get familiar with the technologies for the first time.

I would say Cloudfront is actually overkill for a static site, I didn't really notice any decreased page load times in my testing, and having it purge the caches is another hoop you have to jump through.

There is something entirely geeky about it though, and it puts a smile on my face knowing how unnecessary the technology behind my site is.

I'd be willing to share my rakefiles for publishing this set up if anyone is interested.