On: Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront

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> My non-technical employees and partners like Wordpress. We like the plugins that make web development easy and not arcane.

Use what works for your teams. Apparently, that's Wordpress and that's okay.

> We want the people who come to the site to get the static experience while the people who edit the site to get the Wordpress experience.

Stick a caching proxy or CDN in front of it, not just a Wordpress cache plugin. Something like CloudFlare would help you out.