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

Having looked at why AWS is such a great choice to run web applications in the cloud, in this chapter, you’ll evaluate migrating a simple web application to AWS by setting up a sample cloud infrastructure within five minutes.

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 ...

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