Amazon Elastic Compute and Wordpress

How’s your weekend going? I hope you’re safe and staying warm. Before we dive into this delightful and appetizing article, I invite you to take a moment for a silent prayer for everyone around you and across the globe. Let’s also wish for Cyclone Helene to dissipate, allowing everything to return to normalcy. Close your eyes for a second — yes, I see you!

In today’s guide, we’re embarking on a relatively simple yet exciting project: launching a WordPress site on an EC2 instance. The best part? You can complete this setup in under thirty minutes! This will be an interesting exploration, and next weekend, we’ll delve into more complex structures involving load balancing.

Deploying WordPress on Amazon EC2 enables you to run your website on a highly scalable infrastructure. In this guide, we’ll walk through the steps to set up WordPress on an Amazon Linux instance, utilizing Apache as the web server, PHP for server-side scripting, and MariaDB (MySQL-compatible) for database management.

Prerequisites
1. AWS Account: Ensure you have an active AWS account to access and manage resources.

2. Basic Knowledge of AWS Services and Linux Commands: Familiarity with AWS services, and basic Linux commands will be beneficial for navigating and managing your instance.

3. Amazon EC2 Instance:You’ll need an EC2 instance running Amazon Linux 2 to host your WordPress site.