Moving from Strapi to AWS Amplify Gen 2 to Learn a New Backend
Strapi was a good CMS for Terry Hunt Dev. I began moving the backend to Amplify Gen 2 because I wanted to learn a different way to model, secure, and deploy application data.
The Strapi tag is where I collect articles, guides, and experiments focused on making platform choices, performance tuning, and long-term maintenance less painful. If you’re comparing options or already running Strapi in production, this page keeps everything in one place.
Strapi was a good CMS for Terry Hunt Dev. I began moving the backend to Amplify Gen 2 because I wanted to learn a different way to model, secure, and deploy application data.
Validate Strapi webhooks, map content events to Next.js routes, and retry failed revalidation without rebuilding the site.
Review Strapi administrator roles and public API permissions separately before a production launch.
Diagnose Strapi API failures in order: endpoint, direct request, permissions, query shape, cache, and rendered page.
Separate writing status, review decisions, preview visibility, and public publication in a Strapi workflow.
Model titles, descriptions, canonicals, robots directives, social metadata, and supported JSON-LD in Strapi.
Protect the Strapi database and uploaded media with separate backups, retention, restore order, and tested recovery steps.
Model services, locations, and articles in Strapi without duplicating facts or generating thin location pages.
Inventory, normalize, import, and verify content in Strapi without losing relations, media, redirects, or metadata.
WordPress is still powerful, but it is also easy to misuse. Plugin bloat, security maintenance, governance drama, and developer friction make it risky for serious business websites. Here is why modern teams should avoid WordPress when possible and consider cleaner architecture with Strapi and Next.js.
Compare Strapi Cloud and self-hosting by operational ownership, infrastructure control, backups, upgrades, cost drivers, and migration work.
Plan a Strapi multi-site CMS with explicit site ownership, shared-content rules, permissions, routing, SEO controls, caching, and recovery boundaries.
Deploy Strapi on Railway with PostgreSQL, persistent uploads, production secrets, verification steps, backups, and clear operational ownership.
Compare store ownership, editing, extensions, integrations, hosting, and recovery before choosing PrestaShop, WooCommerce, or a headless build.
Plan a Strapi deployment on AWS around network boundaries, workload identity, database and media recovery, secret handling, observability, and updates.
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