How I Built This Blog Using AWS and Hugo

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I just launched my personal blog! 🚀 In this first post, I want to share how I built it from scratch using Hugo and AWS services like IAM, S3, ACM, and CloudFront — all behind my custom domain, nublog.cloud (though I have since migrated the site to nublog.pages.dev).

🛠️ Tools & Services I Used

Hugo – static site generator for blazing-fast content
Amazon S3 – for hosting the static site
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) – for issuing a free SSL certificate
Amazon CloudFront – CDN for HTTPS support and global delivery
IAM – to manage secure access to AWS services
Namecheap – for my previous custom domain nublog.cloud

⚙️ Key Steps I Followed

1. Set up Hugo locally

hugo new site my-blog
cd my-blog
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod.git themes/PaperMod
echo 'theme = "PaperMod"' >> hugo.toml

2. Added a post (like this one!)

hugo new posts/my-first-post.md

3. Built the site

hugo

4. Synced it to S3

aws s3 sync ./public s3://my-blog-bucket --delete --profile myprofile

5. Created an ACM certificate in us-east-1

Used DNS validation via Namecheap and added the CNAME records.

Tutorial on nublog