A service that hosts websites made of pre-built HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files without needing a traditional server. Like putting up a billboard — the content is ready-made and displayed as-is, making it incredibly fast and cheap to serve.
A marketing agency uses AWS Amplify Hosting to deploy their React-based portfolio sites, getting automatic HTTPS, global CDN distribution, and continuous deployment from GitHub — all for a fraction of the cost of running EC2 instances.
All providers offer a way to serve pre-built files (HTML/CSS/JS) from object storage or a specialized static web hosting service, typically fronted by a CDN for global performance and HTTPS. Some (Amplify, Static Web Apps, Firebase) add built-in CI/CD, previews, and optional serverless backends.