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Migrate Wordpress to EC2 and RDS

March 2020 with Bart Castle

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to migrate an existing Wordpress (LAMP) website to Amazon Web Services (AWS) by using EC2 and RDS.

Learn how to back up an existing site and restore those backups into a newly-created AWS environment, how to get an RDS instance ready to configure and connect to a Wordpress site, and how to build a basic Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP environment on EC2.

Recommended Experience

A basic understanding of IT services and their uses in the AWS Cloud platform is recommended, but not required.
One year of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS is recommended, but not required.

Recommended Equipment

PC, MAC, or Linux system with Internet access
Free tier (or higher) account with AWS

Related Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C01

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C02

Related Job Functions

IT Professional
System administrator
Network administrator
System engineer
Network engineer

Bart Castle has been a CBT Nuggets trainer since 2018, and has more than a decade of cloud computing experience. He has received all the core Amazon Web Services certifications, and he’s one of the few instructors worldwide to earn AWS Authorized Instructor Champion status.

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