Drupal on AWS Is Broken (Here’s Why Most Teams Get It Wrong)

Описание: Hosting Drupal on AWS is often approached as “just spin up an EC2 instance,” but that assumption creates serious reliability, security, and operational risks. Production-grade Drupal on AWS requires reproducible environments, automated deployments, secure secrets management, validated backups, and full observability. This breakdown explains why common approaches fail and what AWS-aligned, production-ready Drupal hosting actually looks like.

00:00 Why “Drupal on AWS” is usually done wrong
00:17 The single EC2 myth and why it fails in production
00:38 What a real Drupal stack actually requires on AWS
00:59 The three common failure paths teams fall into
01:21 Path A: Single EC2 and the single-point-of-failure problem
02:02 Path B: Generic PaaS platforms and Drupal-specific gaps
02:39 Path C: Half-finished Kubernetes clusters and operational risk
03:38 AWS production-ready requirements for serious applications
03:57 Why backups without tested restores are not a DR plan
04:33 Caching, observability, security, and cost control fundamentals
05:11 The missing layer between AWS services and real operations
05:30 What an application orchestration layer actually does
06:10 Five questions to test whether your Drupal setup is truly safe

This discussion is based on an independent Perplexity research brief used to structure and validate the analysis.
Full research context and sources:
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/drupal...

Credits:
Salim (Sal) Lakhani,   / sklakhani  


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