Having looked at why AWS is such a great choice to run web applications in the cloud, in this chapter, you’ll explore migrating a simple web application to AWS by setting up a sample cloud infrastructure within 15 minutes. Over the course of the book, we will revisit the WordPress example to understand the concepts in more detail. For example, we will take a look at the relational database in chapter 10 and learn how to add and remove virtual machines based on the current load in chapter 17.
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.