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Imagine someone deployed an EC2 instance, installed Ubuntu, updated it, and installed WordPress on it – along with all its required software (like the LAMP stack). The person then created an image of the OS in its current state – i.e. – an untouched, essentially “ready-to-use” installation of WordPress. That would be the example of a perfect AMI with WordPress installed in it. Now you can stop imagining, because there exists such an AMI and it was created by Bitnami. (Yay!)


You asked. Amazon listened. Amazon has a marketplace Country Email List called the AWS Marketplace – a place where we can buy (yes, buy) pre-configured machine images for various software, that are otherwise difficult to install. The idea is to simplify your hosting process so you can deploy your app to the cloud as fast as possible. This is very similar to what Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure offers as application images or templates.



Luckily most popular open-source software have free AMIs – which is incredibly useful for beginners like ourselves. One of the most popular contributors of free AMIs is Bitnami – a company that provides up-to-date AMIs for the most popular open-source software – including WordPress!

So there we go. EC2 for hosting our WordPress installation. A WordPress AMI from Bitnami to save us the installation process. Now all we have to do is link them together.