What is WordPress?
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High Availability WordPress Website in AWS Cloud
Building a High Availability WordPress Website in AWS Cloud:
WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems in the world, powering millions of websites. However, as the website grows, we need to ensure it is available and scalable to meet the demand. Building a high availability WordPress website in AWS Cloud can help achieve this goal.
Here are the elements I used to build the high availability WordPress website:
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a fully managed service designed to facilitate the deployment and operation of applications written in various programming languages. It offers a simple and efficient way of running web applications, and it was utilized in the front-end tier of the WordPress website.
An availability zone is a self-contained location within an AWS Region that provides redundancy and high availability. By employing three availability zones, the WordPress website was guaranteed to be accessible at all times.
The application load balancer is a traffic management tool that directs web traffic to specific applications. It boasts advanced routing capabilities, SSL/TLS termination, and content-based routing. It was employed to distribute traffic across Elastic Beanstalk instances.
Amazon DynamoDB is a flexible and fast NoSQL database service that offers scalability and high availability. It was chosen for the back-end tier of the WordPress website.
Amazon CloudFront is a secure global content delivery network (CDN) service that offers customers the ability to access data, videos, applications, and APIs. It was utilized to enable a secure SSL connection between users and the WordPress website.
By leveraging these elements, I was able to establish a high availability WordPress website in AWS Cloud. Incoming traffic was directed to Elastic Beanstalk instances, which distributed it across the availability zones, while the application load balancer managed the traffic. CloudFront ensured a secure SSL connection for the users, and DynamoDB provided scalability and high availability for the back-end tier of the WordPress website.