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Understanding WordPress Architecture on AWS: It’s Simpler Than You Think
- This article discusses how to host the WordPress website on Amazon and AWS components that can be utilized for the purpose.
- The article starts by breaking down the components of the architecture diagram for hosting WordPress on Amazon.
- Amazon S3 is used for static assets such as media and theme assets while Amazon Route 53 and CloudFront are used for DNS and CDN respectively.
- The Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provides security and is used for segregating public and private subnets. NAT Gateway is used for outbound communications from private subnets while Application Load Balancer handles incoming traffic.
- Elastic File System (EFS) provides a scalable and shared file system that can be accessed by multiple WordPress instances, while ElastiCache for Memcached is used for temporary storage to make your site load faster.
- The article shows how the WordPress application runs on EC2 instances and is scalable based on user demand.
- RDS for MySQL manages the database with read replicas used to distribute read operations to different servers. The article concludes by revisiting the architecture and showing how the components fit together.
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