2 A simple example: WordPress in 15 minutes
This chapter covers
- Creating a cloud infrastructure for WordPress
- Exploring a cloud infrastructure consisting of a load balancer, virtual machines, a database, and a network filesystem
- Estimating costs of a cloud infrastructure
- Shutting down a cloud infrastructure
Having looked at why AWS is such a great choice to run web applications in the cloud, in this chapter, you’ll explore migrating a simple web application to AWS by setting up a sample cloud infrastructure within 15 minutes. Over the course of the book, we will revisit the WordPress example to understand the concepts in more detail. For example, we will take a look at the relational database in chapter 10 and learn how to add and remove virtual ...
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