Chapter 2. A simple example: WordPress in five minutes
This chapter covers
- Creating a blogging infrastructure
- Analyzing costs of a blogging infrastructure
- Exploring a blogging infrastructure
- Shutting down a blogging infrastructure
Having looked at why AWS is such a great choice to run web applications in the cloud, in this chapter, you’ll evaluate migrating a simple web application to AWS by setting up a sample cloud infrastructure within five minutes.
Note
The example in this chapter is totally covered by the Free Tier (see section 1.4.1 for details). As long as you don’t run this example longer than a few days, you won’t pay anything for it. Keep in mind that this applies only if you created a fresh AWS account for this book and there is nothing else going on in your AWS account. Try to complete the chapter within a few days, because you’ll clean up your account at the end of the chapter.
Imagine you work for a mid-sized company that runs a blog to attract new software and operations engineers. WordPress is used as the content management system. Around 1,000 people visit the blog daily. You are paying $150 USD per month for the on-premises infrastructure. This seems expensive to you, particularly because at the moment the blog is suffering from several outages per month.