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How to deploy Next.js to AWS
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I will show you how to declare the AWS resources in Pulumi to deploy a Node.js application, which includes Next.js applications as well.
We’ll use the Amazon S3 to store our static content, AWS Lambda for server-side rendering, CloudFront for content delivery, and Route53 for DNS.
First, you’ll need to export your Next.js app to a static HTML application by running next build and next export. This should generate a directory named out which you will need to deploy to your newly created S3 bucket.
Here is the Pulumi code to accomplish it:
import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as aws from "@pulumi/aws";
import * as awsx from "@pulumi/awsx";
import * as s3 from "@pulumi/aws/s3";
// Create a bucket and expose a bucket object website
let siteBucket = new s3.Bucket("s3-website-bucket", {
website: {
indexDocument: "index.html",
},
});
let siteDir = "out"; // Compiled Next.js site
// Deploy site assets
let bucketObject = new s3.BucketObject("nextjs-bucket", {
bucket: siteBucket, // The S3 bucket object
source: new pulumi.asset.FileArchive(siteDir), // Project static site directory
key: "index.html" // S3 object store name
})
// Wire up the static website bucket with a CDN
let cdn = new aws.cloudfront.Distribution("cdn", {
origins: [
{
originPath: '/',
domainName: bucketObject.bucket.bucketRegionHostname, // CloudFront origins refer to S3 buckets that stores our website assets.
s3OriginConfig: {
originAccessIdentity: cdnOriginPath
},
},
],
//...additional configuration
});
// Export the website URL
export const websiteUrl = pulumi.interpolate`http://${siteBucket.websiteEndpoint. hostname}`;
// Export the Cloudfront URL
export const cdUrl = cdn.domainName.apply(n => `https://${n}`)
Please note that this is for a statically exported Next.js app. If you want to use server-side rendering (SSR), you would need to deploy Next.js app as a lambda function, which makes the setup a lot more complex.