Deploy a WordPress Amazon Lightsail instance using Terraform

Deploy a WordPress Amazon Lightsail instance using Terraform

Lately I’ve been learning about Terraform and getting into the habit of deploying infrastructure as code across different cloud service providers, it’s been a while since I found a use case to provision infrastructure on AWS.

For inspiration behind this blog post I took a trip down memory lane circa late 2021, when I was going through a WordPress learning phase I initially used Amazon Lightsail for WordPress hosting, for some reason I used to click through the GUI to provision an Amazon Lightsail instance.

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Hosting Your Own VPN Server In The Cloud

Hosting Your Own VPN Server In The Cloud

Last week Friday was my last working day of the year, it’s been a year of continuous learning mostly on Azure and security. To take a break from Azure I thought it would be a great opportunity to try something out on AWS for a change of Public Cloud. I recently decided to take on the 100 days of cloud challenge.

https://www.100daysofcloud.com/

I’ve been coming across a plethora of ads for VPN’s when I’m on Youtube. Most of the solutions cost just over $ 10 per month. Light bulb moment… how much would it cost to host my own VPN server in the cloud ?

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