In 2025, more enterprises are realizing that running Drupal on AWS without visibility into its cost behavior is like driving a high-performance car without a speedometer. The promise of infinite scale, resilience, and modular growth is real, but so are the silent costs. Most organizations think they’re operating efficiently, yet they routinely overspend by 30 to 60 percent due to avoidable inefficiencies across both the application and infrastructure layers.

This whitepaper introduces Valuebound’s Cost-Aware Drupal Framework™, a battle-tested approach that aligns technical architecture with financial accountability. Based on hundreds of audits and Drupal enterprise deployments, this methodology goes deeper than typical DevOps checklists. It blends cost engineering with CMS behavior analysis- bridging a gap most cloud and agency partners don’t even see.