AWS

My AWS monthly bill is normally less that $10 (USD, before taxes), of which the t2.micro server is about 55%, EBS storage another 44%, and the remaining 1% is email and S3 usage.  The August bill was over $21, with the AWS Web Access Firewall (WAF) being 55% of the total.

• Read more about AWS Serverless: Costs

The Apache .htaccess file is often used to modify how users interact with websites, such as:

• Read more about AWS Serverless: CloudFront Functions

Configuring AWS CloudFront is complicated.  I find it useful to create a 'cheatsheet' of the steps and key values that I need to complete the configuration.  As an example, assume I am transferring an existing https://subdomain.example.ca site to AWS serverless.

• Read more about AWS Serverless: CloudFront and DNS

Some caveats.  Out of the box, AWS serverless hosting is meant for simple websites with files that all public.  Neither S3 buckets nor CloudFront process .htaccess website customisation such as rewrite rules or authentication.  CloudFront functions or Lambda@Edge can provide similar functionality - I will post more details once I have figured out the details.

• Read more about AWS Serverless: Creating an S3 Bucket

I run a number of Drupal, MediaWiki, and static websites on an AWS EC2 t2-micro server. The server Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP stack is no longer supported, primarily because of conflicting server and Drupal requirements made upgrading difficult.  My plan is to create static versions of the MediaWiki and Drupal sites.

• Read more about AWS Serverless: An Overview