Highly Available and Scalable Wordpress Installation on AWS Highly Available and Scalable Wordpress Installation on AWS The initial version of Wordpress was released in May 2003 and it has been nearly 17 years. Wordpress is still going strong after all these… Highly Available and Scalable Wordpress Installation on AWS The initial version of Wordpress was released in May 2003 and it has been nearly 17 years. Wordpress is still going strong after all these years, according to report WordPress powers over 1/3rd of the top 10 million sites . We can safely assume that Wordpress is not going away anytime soon. Many cloud companies are now targeting Wordpress users directly with Wordpress specific hosting. Although that might sounds optimal for the average Wordpress user, these offerings have limitations and shortcomings. Most of them provide poor hardware support and scaling a Wordpress instance can become a really hard task. We would like to treat Wordpress as a web application that ...