Really basic questions on IoT/AWS (or other)

[BrianP]

I don't know if this is the place to post this but the IoT related forums don't seem to be very active.

I have designed a control board which I connect to on my LAN and interact with via a web page.

It seems that if I want to interact remotely there are two choices: host a web page or connect to something like AWS IoT via MQTT.

I would like to learn how to connect to AWS, etc., but I am stuck trying to figure out how I can then interact with AWS to interact with my control board. In other words, I get that I can send/receive MQTT (locally or via AWS) but I can't figure out how to get that MQTT interaction on to/from a web page on a standard browser. I have found discussions on loading special extensions like Mosquito and using that, but that would only work on machines configure that way. I guess I could write an app but that is a lot of work

I am probably not using the correct search terms in my googling but I am stuck at figuring out that last part.

So can somebody provide an outline (or direct me to resources) explaining how I would do that?

Thanks