Nice post. You can go one step further and automate most of the process with CloudFormation [1].

I also switched some time ago from Gitlab to CloudFront and S3 because it lets me optimize things that get you to 100% at Pagespeed Insights [2] such as Cache Control.

[1] https://correctme.ifiamwrong.com/posts/cloudfrontcloudformat... [2] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?hl=e...