Cost-Effective AWS Architectures for WordPress (and other websites)
How to right-size your AWS deployment.
If you Google how to run WordPress on AWS, you might come across a white paper from Amazon that shows the following:
For a beginner or someone looking to run a small blog or e-commerce site, this diagram is crazy complicated. I started writing this post because I wanted to understand the reasons behind recommending an architecture like this by breaking it down into the individual components and services.
- What is all that stuff for?
- What do I really need?
- How much is it going to cost me?
This post works through an example that starts with a simple single-server deployment and adds one AWS service or feature at a time to build up to the complex diagram above. We will look into the benefit and the cost of each one so that you can make educated decisions on how to deploy your architecture. The estimated costs are for comparative purposes; every deployment will be different. Be sure to analyze your unique situation before deploying services that will cost you money.
