• In this section, we covered how to simply and easily convert a public bucket into a website. But wait – aren't we always hearing about how it's bad practice to make an S3 bucket public? While a static website is one of the few legitimate use cases for a public bucket, there is a better way. See the next recipe, Caching a website with CloudFront, to learn how to securely host the contents of a private bucket using Amazon CloudFront.