![]() Make sure to select the VPC you created, as well as one of your public subnets where you want the host to reside.Ĭlick on “Next: Add Storage”. Configure your instance to use your VPC and Public Subnet I’m going to start with a t2.nano instance and if I come across any issues, I can always change the instance type later on.Ĭlick on “Next: Configure instance details”. I’m familiar with Ubuntu, so I’ll select that image. Once there, select a Free Tier eligible AMI. ![]() Then click on “Instances” to get to the Instances Dashboard.Ĭlick on “Launch instance” in the top right. Login to your AWS Management Console and then go to the “EC2” service. Our first step is going to be to create a new EC2 Instance to act as your Bastion Host and have it reside on one of our public subnets. For our use case, it will be used for SSH access to our web/app servers, and also to check connections to our database on RDS and cache on ElastiCache. It is designed to be a hardened front door and limit access to resources behind it. What is a Bastion Host?Ī bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from a public network. We will try to overcome this with caching and CDN however, if that’s not performant enough for your use case, you may want to only put the “uploads” directory on EFS and then have a process to update the base AMI going forward.Ĩ.6 Optional: Test Outbound Internet Connection on Instance in Private Subnet Prerequisite: AWS Reference Architecture and Previous PostsĪs mentioned above, please ensure that you check out the AWS Reference architecture as well as our previous posts. Please note that we are going to put the whole WordPress installation on EFS which does have some latency and performance concerns. The way you’ve traditionally managed WordPress will be different with this architecture and that needs to be taken into account long-term. ![]() Scalability does come with some drawbacks with regard to keeping themes/plugins up to date however, it all depends on your goal and what you need for your site. For this tutorial, we are going to create a Bastion Host to manage our WordPress architecture. If you haven’t checked out our previous posts, be sure to click the link above.Īs a reminder, we’ll follow the AWS Reference architecture as close as possible however, we will try to use Free Tier resources whenever available. This post is part of our series on how to Create a Multi-Tier Auto-Scaling WordPress Site on Amazon Web Services. Any views or opinions are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, or individual. Disclaimer: This is a personal blog, any views or opinions expressed in this blog are personal and belong solely to the blog author and do not represent those of people, institutions, or organizations that the author may or may not be associated with in a professional or personal capacity, unless explicitly stated.
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