You don't actually have a choice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11531357

mryan · on April 20, 2016

That is not correct. You can host a website from an S3 bucket without using CloudFront. Although of course, downloads will come directly from the S3 bucket and not from a CF edge location.

Benjamin_Dobell · on April 20, 2016

Huh, just what did you think I was saying? Of course you can put CloudFront in front of S3 website hosting!!!

You can't use S3 Transfer Acceleration with S3 Static Website Hosting.

mryan · on April 22, 2016

My apologies, I misread your comment.

kalleboo · on April 20, 2016

That's only if you want a fancy CNAME. If you're just hosting static assets, you might not care what the domain name is