Good question! For the purposes of this project I just needed an element representing the “web” part of the traditional 3-tier architecture. Pure simplicity meant that I was just going to have apache display an html page I built.

The exercise was more of a representational project, getting some experience building out the separate pieces. Hence the application tier not doing anything, and the database tier isn’t actually connected.

For an actual deployment that would accomplish some task, or really, be anything other than a showcase, I would certainly have used an S3 bucket.