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Amazon Web Services AWS Broken Labs

Lab 03 - Site Content

Difficulty: Beginner Service: Amazon S3

Scenario

Your team hosts a static website in S3. A teammate pushed a content update and now the site is showing the wrong page. They’re confident they uploaded the right file — but something went wrong. Your job is to figure out what happened and restore the correct content.

What Was Deployed

Resource Purpose
AWS::S3::Bucket S3 bucket configured for public static website hosting
AWS::S3::BucketPolicy Bucket policy granting public s3:GetObject on all objects

The stack deployed without errors.

Deploy the Lab

  1. Open the AWS CloudFormation console
  2. Click Create stack > With new resources (standard)
  3. Select Upload a template file and upload lab-03-site-content.yaml
  4. Enter a stack name (e.g., brokenlabs-lab-03) and click Next > Next > Submit
  5. Wait for the stack status to reach CREATE_COMPLETE
  6. Open the stack Outputs tab — you will see BucketName and BucketURL

The Problem

Open the BucketURL from the stack Outputs in your browser.

Expected: the page displays the AWS Broken Labs welcome page. Actual: the page displays “Coming Soon — This page is under construction.”

Fix the Lab

Diagnose why the wrong content is being served and restore the correct page.

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Cleanup

  1. Open CloudFormation, select your stack, and click Delete

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