WordPress on the AWS Cloud: Options and Best Practices
WordPress is a content management system (CMS) used for creating and managing websites. This open-source software is based on PHP and MySQL, and it is one of the most popular CMS platforms in the world. WordPress allows users to easily create and manage their own websites without needing to have any specialized coding knowledge. It is used by millions of websites, including many large and popular sites.
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services – a cloud computing platform that provides a broad range of services, including storage, computing power, and content delivery. With AWS, businesses and individuals can access a range of services to help them build and run their websites and applications without investing in their infrastructure. Among many other use cases, AWS allows running WordPress websites in the cloud.
Benefits of Running WordPress on AWS
There are several key benefits to running a WordPress website on AWS:
Improved resilience – Amazon provides high availability and service level agreements (SLAs) that are unmatched by most hosting options.
Scalability – Amazon provides many options for scaling a WordPress website, both vertically (by increasing the capacity of the web server) and horizontally (by adding more web servers and balancing loads between them).
Security – AWS is an enterprise-grade environment with strong security features and built-in security solutions such as AWS WAF and AWS Network Firewall.
Continuous delivery – AWS provides integrated CI/CD tooling that lets you easily build an automated development and deployment pipeline. Read More…