# aws-samples/aws-refarch-wordpress

This reference architecture provides best practices and a set of YAML CloudFormation templates for deploying WordPress on AWS.

Repository: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-refarch-wordpress
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/aws-refarch-wordpress
Language: PHP
License: MIT-0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-04-05T23:51:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3354, "days_push": 1246, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1106, forks 595 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:36.538039+00:00)

## What it is
A set of nested AWS CloudFormation YAML templates from AWS Samples that deploy a scalable, highly available WordPress architecture on AWS. It provisions VPC, EC2 Auto Scaling, ALB, RDS, ElastiCache, EFS, CloudFront, and Route 53 resources from a single master template.

## Use cases
- deploy wordpress on aws
- host a scalable wordpress site with cloudformation
- set up highly available wordpress with auto scaling and rds
- launch wordpress stack with cloudfront cdn and elasticache
- best practice reference architecture for wordpress on aws
- deploy wordpress in a vpc with elastic file system shared storage

## When to choose
- you want an AWS-endorsed, one-click CloudFormation deployment of WordPress
- you need a production-grade multi-AZ WordPress setup with load balancing, caching, and shared media storage
- you prefer infrastructure-as-code templates you can customize per stack

## When to avoid
- you deploy outside AWS or prefer Terraform/other IaC tools
- you need a simple single-server WordPress install or shared hosting
- you want a managed WordPress service like Lightsail or Elastic Beanstalk without managing CloudFormation stacks

## Facets
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: maintenance
- function: infrastructure-as-code, deployment, self-hosted, caching, load-testing
- domain: cloud-computing, cms, web-development, self-hosted
- platform: cloud
- tags: wordpress, cloudformation, aws, reference-architecture, elastic-load-balancing, rds, elasticache, efs, cloudfront, devops, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- aws-samples/aws-refarch-wordpress (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:36.538039+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:44:13.419039+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-refarch-wordpress (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:36.538039+00:00, sha b1ab7c1bb4ba)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.