> I loathe seeing *.html in urls and that's the only thing you can do with S3 root object
You can configure name of index file, and that will be displayed for requests against root URL and subdirectories (such as blog posts) as well. No need for having .html in URLs.
The only problem I've encountered with S3 web hosting is that it does not let you host naked domains.
Naked domains as in "example.com" without the www? Just name your bucket without the www and it will work. You can then do a javascript redirect from a simple index page at www.example.com (google has said that they now follow javascript redirects. My play example "http://whitewatersearch.com
You can configure name of index file, and that will be displayed for requests against root URL and subdirectories (such as blog posts) as well. No need for having .html in URLs.
The only problem I've encountered with S3 web hosting is that it does not let you host naked domains.