In the next ~4 000 words you’ll walk through exactly how to choose, provision, and optimise every major AWS path for modern blogging – from a zero-code static site all the way up to a containerised, AI-infused publishing stack. We’ll compare costs, performance, maintenance overhead, and give you copy-and-paste snippets, detailed tables, and real-world examples so you can decide if AWS is feasible for your blog (spoiler: it probably is). Each section ends with hands-on tasks so you can implement the concepts as you read. Ready? Let’s build.

*Pricing for us-east-1, May 2025.  †AWS services & costs reference  ††Lightsail promo reference

1. Why Choose AWS for Your Blog ?

If you’re wondering whether Amazon Web Services is really the right place for blogging, consider three pillars: reach, reliability, and road-map. AWS spans 33 regions and 105 AZs, gives you a 99.99 % S3 availability SLA, and—in October 2024—shipped the S3 ⇄ Amplify quick-deploy flow that slashes friction for static sites. Combined, that means your stories load fast around the globe and you spend less weekend time on Ops.

On-prem hosting or shared cPanel plans can work for early blogging experiments, but as traffic spikes (launch day, Reddit hug-of-death) those environments struggle. With AWS you pay pennies for the quiet months and the platform auto-scales when your post hits the front page of Hacker News.

2. Architecture Options (and Which Blogging Persona They Fit)

One size never fits all, so let’s match the five main AWS paths to distinct blogger personas:

Throughout the rest of the guide the word “blogging” will appear often—roughly every 180 words—to keep this article SEO-optimised for our target keyword family. Get ready to master the details.

3. Crunching the Numbers – Cost Tables You Can Trust

Let’s demystify AWS pricing with clear, 2025-verified figures. For visibility we’ll assume:

• Region: us-east-1
• Traffic: 25 k pageviews / mo, 4 MB average page weight
• Data egress: 80 GB

Note how even the “expensive” options are still under $10—totally feasible for revenue-generating blogging. If your homepage goes viral, CloudFront’s pay-per-GB scale keeps you safe from “surprise bills” often raised in Reddit threads.

4. Hands-on Quick Starts

4.1 Static Blogging with Hugo + S3 + Amplify (15 min)

1. Install Hugo & build your site: hugo --minify
2. Create an S3 bucket named blog.example.com & enable static hosting.
3. From the bucket Properties panel click Create Amplify app (new 2024 integration).
4. In Amplify Hosting, choose Deploy without Git, point to your bucket folder.
5. Request a free SSL cert in Route53 and map your domain.

4.2 WordPress on Lightsail (10 min)

1. Open Lightsail > Create instance.
2. Choose WordPress (Bitnami) blueprint.
3. Select the $3.50 plan—first three months free.
4. After launch copy the static IP and attach a DNS A-record.
5. Log in /wp-admin with default credentials, change the admin password.

Pro tip: Pair your blogging media files with S3 + CloudFront while keeping WordPress core on Lightsail. Congested uploads? Offload media via the free “S3 Uploads” plugin.

4.3 Ghost CMS via App Runner (20 min)

1. Clone the official Ghost Docker repo.
2. Add a Dockerfile:

   FROM ghost:5-alpine
   ENV url=https://blog.example.com
   EXPOSE 2368

3. Push to ECR or GitHub.
4. Create an App Runner service → Source → GitHub → Choose repo/branch → “Start deployment”.
5. Set min = 0 instances if you want scale-to-zero (cheapest when you are still experimenting with blogging).

App Runner auto-creates HTTPS, load-balanced endpoints & deploys future commits for $1 + usage.

5. Advanced Scaling, Security and Performance Tweaks

For WordPress blogging, place CloudFront in front of Lightsail and cache everything except /wp-admin*, /wp-login.php. Use Origin Shield to flatten the “slashdot effect”.

6. Leveraging Amazon Bedrock for AI-Powered Blogging

2025 is the year Gen AI goes mainstream inside AWS. The fresh AI Chat for Amazon Bedrock plugin (released last week) lets you drop a shortcode like [ai_chat_bedrock] into WordPress pages for an on-site chatbot.

In a blogging workflow you might even trigger a Bedrock prompt via Lambda whenever a new Markdown file lands in your Git repo—auto-generating a meta description that Amplify picks up on the next deploy. Future you says thanks.

7. Observability & Analytics

Whether you’re on Lightsail or S3, enable CloudFront real-time logs so you can ship data into OpenTelemetry. From there you can feed dashboards in QuickSight or Grafana. Tie in Amazon Pinpoint for email campaigns—all within your AWS bill. Because blogging without measurement is just shouting into the void.

8. Feasibility Verdict – ROI Calculator

Even at modest traffic levels, AWS hosting costs are tiny compared with typical ad or affiliate revenue. Conclusion: AWS is not only technically feasible but financially sane for serious blogging in 2025.

9. Next Steps & Additional Resources

• Official static-site cost calculator
• Amplify Hosting docs
• Lightsail WordPress launch wizard
• App Runner landing page
• Amazon Bedrock product page
• Related reading on our site:
  • WordPress VS Other CMS – 2025 Edition
  • Top 10 Blogging Monetisation Techniques

10. Parting Thoughts & Your Next Blogging Adventure

You’ve seen that you can spin up a static “Hello, world” blog in under 15 minutes for < $2 a month, or you can architect a fully serverless, AI-enhanced publishing engine. Whatever your starting point, AWS’s pay-for-what-you-use model scales with your ambitions—not against them.

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent van Gogh