Get 12 Months of AWS WordPress Hosting for Free

        1. Introduction to AWS Free Tier

            1.1 Amazon EC2 – Compute – 750 Hours per Month (About 31.25 Days)

               1.2 Amazon S3 – Storage – 5GB of Standard Storage

                1.3 Amazon RDS – 750 Hours per Month

                 1.4 AWS Lambda – 1 Million free requests per month

                 1.5 Amazon SNS – 1 Million publishes

         2. Sign-up for Account

         3. Create a AWS WordPress Hosting instance in Lightsail

         4. Choose Instance Location

         5. Choose Instance as WordPress

         6. Choose Instance Plan and Configuration

         7. Name Your Instance

         8. Connect to your instance via SSH

         9. Sign-in to WordPress Dashboad with Super Administrator

1. Introduction to AWS Free Tier

AWS Free Tier includes many free services which are always free and many services which are offered free for 12 months plan.

Popular services are below with brief descriptions:

1.1. Amazon EC2 – Compute – 750 Hours per Month (About 31.25 Days)

You will get 750 Hours of Linux and 750 Hours of Windows instances that means about 31.25 days each month which means you will get a complete year free 2 running instances. [1]

Below are details mentioned on AWS site:

1.2 Amazon S3 – Storage – 5GB of Standard Storage

Below are details mentioned on AWS site:

1.3 Amazon RDS – 750 Hours per Month

Its duration is same as the compute service you will get 750 Hours per month that means about 31.25 days each month which means you will get a complete year db.t2.micro database. [1]

Below are details mentioned on AWS site:

Managed Relational Database Service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle BYOL, or SQL Server.

1.4 AWS Lambda – 1 Million free requests per month

Compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources. [1]

Below are details mentioned on AWS site:

• 1,000,000 free requests per month

• Up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month

1.5. Amazon SNS – 1 Million publishes

Managed push messaging or notification service is always free when you sign-up for AWS Free Tier account.

Below are details mentioned on AWS site:

2. Sign-up for Account:

Signup here.

AWS WORDPRESS HOSTING 2

3. Create a AWS WordPress Hosting instance in Lightsail

4. Choose Instance Location

5. Choose Instance as WordPress

6. Choose Instance Plan and Configuration

7. Name Your Instance

8. Connect to your instance via SSH

IMPORTANT : The default password to sign in to the administration dashboard of your WordPress website is stored on the instance.

After the Terminal opens reveal the password by using this command:

cat $HOME/bitnami_application_password

Make note of the password displayed on the screen. This is the password for your wordpress site Super Administrator.

9. Sign-in to WordPress Dashboard with Super Administrator

Open browser with the below address

IMPORTANT: PublicIpAddress is the IP Address for the AWS Instance.

http://PublicIpAddress/wp-login.php

That’s all enjoy your newly created WordPress site with 12 Months of AWS WordPress Hosting for Free.

IMPORTANT:

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References:

1. Detailed Description on AWS Website
2. Free Cloud Computing Service – AWS Free Tier