This hands-on lab will guide you through the steps to configure a web application in Amazon EC2 with a defense in depth approach. The skills you learn will help you secure your workloads in alignment with the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The WordPress example CloudFormation template will deploy a basic WordPress content management system, incorporating a number of AWS security best practices. This example is not intended to be a comprehensive WordPress system, please consult Build a WordPress Website for more information.
- EC2 automated deployment
- Autoscaling and load balancing
- An AWS account that you are able to use for testing, that is not used for production or other purposes.
- An IAM user or role in your AWS account with full access to CloudFormation, EC2, VPC, IAM, Elastic Load Balancing. NOTE: You will be billed for any applicable AWS resources used if you complete this lab that are not covered in the AWS Free Tier.
- Basic understanding of AWS CloudFormation, visit the Getting Started section of the user guide.
- Deployed the CloudFormation VPC stack in the lab Automated Deployment of VPC.
- IAM User with AdministratorAccess AWS managed policy
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