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I'd like to host a website on Amazon S3. What's the best practice to make a site accessible from both example.com and www.example.com?

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You should choose one version to use and 301 redirect from one to the other. I don't know if you can use a htaccess file on S3 but if not you may be able to do the redirect from you domain name's control panel.

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No, .htaccess can't be used with S3 (that's an Apache specific file). Since S3 can't host naked domains, only subdomains because it uses a CNAME record, you would host www.example.com in the bucket and redirect example.com to the bucket. – Anders Dahnielson Jan 10 '12 at 8:37
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Amazon offers a free micro server for one year. http://aws.amazon.com/free/ you may be better off setting up a public AMI LAMP stack and have the freedom to configure your website however you'd like.

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