HA Wordpress Setup with AWS?

[DHR]

I'm waning to up my skill set a little more in AWS and have the perfect Wordpress project for it but might be a little ahead of my self!

I'm looking at setting up a Wordpress instance on EC2 with S3 holding data/assets etc for the app tier and RDS for the data tier. The idea is to have a highly available setup that meets best practice.

Cloudflare interests me too if there are any huge benefits to it in this scenario?

I was hoping to have a test server that pulls site assets in from the production setup in read only mode too if at all possible? Not done that before I though so it'd be a nice to have.

Backups I can drag down are also a factor but I can look into that further later on.

 

[DHR]

Cheers guys, I've been doing more reading and there is a problem in using S3, you can use it but it requires a Wordpress plugin. I've since found out that this approach means you can have difficult using auto updates, themes etc.

By all accounts using EFS gets around that issue...

 

[DHR]

Been trying to get it rolled out with a cloudformation template I've found but I just keep getting failures at certain points...

19:24:06 UTC+0000 ROLLBACK_IN_PROGRESS AWS::CloudFormation::Stack wordpress-ha The following resource(s) failed to create: [WebServerIAMRole, EFSFileSystem, LoadBalancer, WebServerSecurityGroup]. . Rollback requested by user.

19:24:05 UTC+0000 CREATE_FAILED AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup WebServerSecurityGroup Resource creation cancelled
Physical ID:wordpress-ha-WebServerSecurityGroup-1TWPLM0SRC2TE

19:23:51 UTC+0000 CREATE_FAILED AWS::EFS::FileSystem EFSFileSystem Resource creation cancelled
Physical ID:fs-403cea09

19:23:51 UTC+0000 CREATE_FAILED AWS::IAM::Role WebServerIAMRole Resource creation cancelled
Physical ID:wordpress-ha-WebServerIAMRole-1WA6ALVBS7KRN

19:23:50 UTC+0000 CREATE_FAILED AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing::LoadBalancer LoadBalancer Server Certificate not found for the key: arn:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_edited

..... starting to think I'm past it!

Edit - Cracked it. So much to learn though here it's shocking.