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Drupal on AWS Is Broken (Here’s Why Most Teams Get It Wrong)
Running Drupal on AWS sounds simple until production realities set in. What begins as a single EC2 instance often turns into a fragile system with hidden failure points, manual deployments, untested backups, and limited visibility into what is actually happening in production.
This conversation walks through the most common ways teams attempt to host Drupal on AWS and why those approaches routinely fall short. It explains what AWS considers “production-ready,” why generic platforms and half-built Kubernetes clusters create long-term risk, and how reproducible environments, automated deployments, validated disaster recovery, and full observability change the equation. The discussion closes with a practical self-assessment framework to help teams determine whether their current Drupal setup is truly safe—or quietly accumulating operational debt.
Video: Drupal on AWS is broken
Research context used to structure this discussion:
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/drupal-hosting-on-aws-and-why-1_QzIZpiScWAvkDC3A2RwQ
Credits:
Salim (Sal) Lakhani: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklakhani/
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