Three Tier Architecture¶

LAMP Stack on EC2¶

• Linux: OS for EC2 Instances
• Apache: Web Server that runs on Linux (EC2)
• MySQL: database on RDS
• PHP: Application Logic (running on EC2)

• Can add Redis / Memcached (ElastiCache) to include caching
• To store local application data & software: EBS drive (root)

Wordpress on AWS¶

A more complicated wordpress setup¶

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/wordpress-best-practices-on-aws/