diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b53d6c7..654b05f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,10 +30,37 @@ gulp
 
 ## Deployment
 
-### Production build
+The site is hosted in an S3 bucket and gets deployed via a gulp task.
 
-The following builds the site and runs a bunch of optimizations over everything, like assets optimizations, revisioning, CDN url injection etc.
+### Prerequisite: Authentication
+
+To deploy the site, you must authenticate yourself against the AWS API with your AWS credentials. Get your AWS access key and secret and add them to `~/.aws/credentials`:
+
+```
+[default]
+aws_access_key_id = <YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID>
+aws_secret_access_key = <YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>
+```
+
+This is all that is needed to authenticate with AWS if you've setup your credentials as the default profile.
+
+If you've set them up as another profile, say `[bigchain]` you can grab those credentials by using the `AWS_PROFILE` variable like so:
 
 ```bash
-gulp build --production
+AWS_PROFILE=bigchain gulp deploy:live
+```
+
+In case that you get authentication errors or need an alternative way to authenticate with AWS, check out the [AWS documentation](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/guide/node-configuring.html).
+
+### Production build & live deployment
+
+```bash
+# make sure your local npm packages & gems are up to date
+npm update && bundle update
+
+# make production build in /_dist
+gulp build --production
+
+# deploy contents of /_dist to live
+gulp deploy:live
 ```
diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index 737ad2b..e0c789e 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ var $ = require('gulp-load-plugins')();
 var gulp = require('gulp'),
     del = require('del'),
     pkg = require('./package.json'),
+    parallelize = require('concurrent-transform'),
     browser = require('browser-sync');
 
 // Temporary solution until gulp 4
@@ -53,6 +54,12 @@ var COMPATIBILITY = ['Chrome >= 30', 'Safari >= 6.1', 'Firefox >= 35', 'Opera >=
 var SRC      = '_src/',
     DIST     = '_dist/';
 
+// deployment
+var S3BUCKET         = 'www.bigchain.io',
+    S3REGION         = 'eu-central-1',
+    S3BUCKET_BETA    = 'beta.bigchain.io',
+    S3REGION_BETA    = 'eu-central-1';
+
 // SVG sprite
 var SPRITECONFIG = {
     dest: DIST + 'assets/img/',
@@ -302,3 +309,51 @@ gulp.task('build', function(done) {
 // ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 // Deployment
 // ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+gulp.task('deploy:live', function() {
+
+    // create publisher, define config
+    var publisher = $.awspublish.create({
+        params: {
+            'Bucket': S3BUCKET
+        },
+        'accessKeyId': process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY,
+        'secretAccessKey': process.env.AWS_SECRET_KEY,
+        'region': S3REGION
+    });
+
+    return gulp.src(DIST + '**/*')
+        .pipe($.awspublishRouter({
+            cache: {
+                // cache for 5 minutes by default
+                cacheTime: 300
+            },
+            routes: {
+                // all static assets, cached & gzipped
+                '^assets/(?:.+)\\.(?:js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|svg|ttf)$': {
+                    cacheTime: 2592000, // cache for 1 month
+                    gzip: true
+                },
+
+                // every other asset, cached
+                '^assets/.+$': {
+                    cacheTime: 2592000  // cache for 1 month
+                },
+
+                // all html files, not cached & gzipped
+                '^.+\\.html': {
+                    cacheTime: 0,
+                    gzip: true
+                },
+
+                // pass-through for anything that wasn't matched by routes above, to be uploaded with default options
+                "^.+$": "$&"
+            }
+        }))
+        .pipe(parallelize(publisher.publish(), 10))
+        .pipe(publisher.sync()) // delete files in bucket that are not in local folder
+        .pipe(publisher.cache())
+        .pipe($.awspublish.reporter({
+            states: ['create', 'update', 'delete']
+        }));
+});
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 86acd6d..8fe5981 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -23,9 +23,12 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
       "browser-sync": ">=2.10.0",
+      "concurrent-transform": "^1.0.0",
       "del": "^2.0.2",
       "gulp": "^3.9.0",
       "gulp-autoprefixer": "^3.0.1",
+      "gulp-awspublish": "^3.0.0",
+      "gulp-awspublish-router": "^0.1.1",
       "gulp-concat": "^2.6.0",
       "gulp-cssmin": "^0.1.7",
       "gulp-header": "^1.7.1",