These articles cover Amazon Web Services.
This site is hosted on AWS. It's an exceptionally capable and versatile hosting service, but the breadth of options and the degree of freedom can make it hard to get an initial grasp of what each service does and how to map your goals to specific features. That makes budgeting and forming a concrete plan difficult, and gives AWS a reputation for a high barrier to entry for individual users.
In practice, there are affordable options well-suited to individual use, and the management console is clearly laid out — settings for each feature are straightforward, and day-to-day management is manageable for a single person. AWS is fundamentally designed for large organizations with demanding workloads, and its strength lies in scalability — handling high traffic and large volumes of data. That same scalability becomes an advantage if your site grows over time, making any future migration smooth.
I run this site on a simple setup: Drupal packaged on AWS Lightsail, domain management through Route 53, email on the domain via Amazon WorkMail, and mail delivery managed through Amazon Simple Email Service.
※ As of July 2026, Drupal has been moved to a local environment and the site converted to JamStack. Lightsail is now used solely for serving static files.