Hosting WordPress on AWS

Stack to deploy a highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant WordPress environment using CloudFormation (AWS Free Tier resources default). Based on WordPress: Best Practices on AWS.

Version 0.5.1 📡

Overview

This reference architecture provides a YAML template for deploying WordPress on AWS using a set of resources.

List of Resources

#CloudFormation
  AWS::CloudFormation::Interface:

#Compute
  AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup
  AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration
  AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
  AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupIngress
  AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::Listener
  AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::LoadBalancer
  AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::TargetGroup

#Storage
  AWS::EFS::FileSystem
  AWS::EFS::MountTarget
  AWS::S3::Bucket

#Security, Identity, & Compliance
  AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile
  AWS::IAM::Role

#Database
  AWS::RDS::DBSubnetGroup
  AWS::RDS::DBInstance

#Networking & Content Delivery
  AWS::CloudFront::Distribution
  AWS::CloudFront::CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity
  AWS::Route53::RecordSetGroup

Parameters

Name	Description
VpcId	The VPC ID of an existing VPC
Subnet	The existing subnets
Number Of Subnets	The number of subnets
EC2 instance type	WebServer EC2 instance type
Key Pair Name	Name of an existing EC2 KeyPair to enable SSH access to the instances
SSHLocation	The IP address range that can be used to SSH to the EC2 instances
Number of Instances	The initial number of WebServer instances
ALB Certificate ARN	The AWS Certification Manager certificate ARN for the ALB certificate
Wordpress DNS	The main domain name of the WordPress site
Database Instance Type	Database instance class
Database Name	The Amazon RDS master database name.
Database User	The Amazon RDS master username
Database Password	The Amazon RDS master password
Performance Mode	The performance mode of the file system

Steps to run

To launch the entire stack and deploy a WordPress site on AWS, click on one of the Launch Stack links below or download the Master template and launch it locally.

You can launch this CloudFormation stack, using your account, in the following AWS Regions:

AWS Region Code	Name	Launch
us-east-1	US East (N. Virginia)
us-east-2	US East (Ohio)
us-west-2	US West (Oregon)
eu-west-1	EU (Ireland)
eu-central-1	EU (Frankfurt)
ap-southeast-2	AP (Sydney)

⚠️ Requirements ⚠️