How to deploy Wordpress website on EC2 with Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

Deploy WordPress on AWS EC2 Using AWS CDK

Launch your own WordPress website on Amazon EC2 — fully provisioned using AWS CDK and powered by the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

This hands-on tutorial walks you through building a complete WordPress setup on AWS, from bootstrapping your environment to connecting via SSH, configuring the database, and running the installation script. It is ideal for developers, DevOps engineers, and learners who want to understand how WordPress works under the hood and how to automate cloud deployments with AWS CDK.

What You’ll Build

• A VPC, EC2 instance, and Security Groups provisioned via AWS CDK (TypeScript)
• Apache web server with PHP and MariaDB installed on Amazon Linux 2023
• Secure SSH access using ed25519 keys
• Fully functional WordPress site hosted on AWS EC2

What You’ll Learn

• How the WordPress architecture works (Apache + PHP + MySQL)
• The WordPress request lifecycle and file structure
• How to configure wp-config.php, create a database, and enable permalinks
• How to deploy infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CDK

Ideal For

• Developers exploring AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
• Students or professionals learning WordPress self-hosting
• DevOps engineers mastering IaC workflows for real-world web applications

What’s Included

• Complete CDK project source code
• Step-by-step README guide
• Architecture diagrams and screenshots
• Example commands for WordPress setup and database configuration

Next Steps

The tutorial also includes guidance on how to evolve your setup into a production-grade architecture, including:

• Route 53 for DNS management
• ACM for TLS/HTTPS
• Application Load Balancer and Auto Scaling Groups
• Amazon EFS and RDS for scalable storage and databases
• CloudFront CDN, CloudWatch monitoring, SNS alerts, and WAF for enhanced security

Learn how AWS, CDK, and LAMP work together in practice, and launch your own cloud-hosted WordPress site today.

Download the project and start building now.