{"id":934,"date":"2019-02-11T02:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helenanderson.co.nz\/?p=934"},"modified":"2020-05-09T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T09:18:09","slug":"aws-lightsail-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenanderson.co.nz\/aws-lightsail-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Lightsail and WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is it?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

AWS Lightsail is an AWS<\/a> product that puts all the pieces together<\/a> behind the scenes to run a WordPress site or small application. If you want to spin up a WordPress blog or test site quickly and inexpensively it can be done in a few minutes for a few bucks a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stumbled across it while working through the A Cloud Guru<\/a> coursework. The final project is to stand up a WordPress site using EC2<\/a>, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, Route53 and S3<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will get back to doing the final project but thought I would give Lightsail a try as well. It’s inexpensive and fairly straightforward to set up a Wordpress blog once my domain was ready on Route 53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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But what is it… really?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lightsail is a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or Virtual Image. You can pick which OS you would like to operate on and then what you would like to deploy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n