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

In chapter 1, we looked at why AWS is such a great choice to run web applications in the cloud. In this chapter, you’ll evaluate migrating the blogging infrastructure of your imaginary company to AWS.

Example is 100% covered by the Free Tier

The example in this chapter is covered by the Free Tier. 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 are no other ...

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