Overview
Bitnami, the leaders in application packaging, and Automattic, the experts behind WordPress, have teamed up to offer this official WordPress image on AWS Marketplace.
WordPress is the world's most popular content management platform. Whether it's for an enterprise or small business website, or a personal or corporate blog, content authors can easily create content using its new Gutenberg editor, and developers can extend the base platform with additional features.
For content authors, the Jetpack plugin (enabled by default) offers access to additional professional themes, performance improvements, scanning, site activity, and marketing tools. Other popular plugins like Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, WP Mail and Google Analytics for WordPress also come pre-installed. Audio feeds can be generated with the pre-installed Amazon Polly plugin.
For developers, this image includes the latest version of WordPress, PHP, Apache, and MySQL. It is secure by default, as all ports except HTTP, HTTPS, and SSH ports are closed. HTTP/2 and Let's Encrypt auto-configuration are supported. Caching functionality is included to improve performance.
Bitnami certifies that its images are secure, up-to-date, and packaged using industry best practices. We continuously monitor all components and libraries for vulnerabilities, outdated components, and application updates.
Highlights
- Jetpack plugin is included by default offering access to additional professional themes, performance improvements and marketing tools. Optional automatic backup and priority support are available from Automattic.
- SSL auto-configuration with Let's Encrypt certificates is included. Configuration is optimized for smaller instances, with additional caching functionality to improve performance.
- Always up to date and secure. Includes the latest available version of WordPress, PHP, Apache, and MariaDB.
Details
Typical total price
$0.019/hour
Features and programs
Financing for AWS Marketplace purchases
Pricing
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.00 | $0.012 | $0.012 |
t2.small | $0.00 | $0.023 | $0.023 |
t2.medium | $0.00 | $0.046 | $0.046 |
t2.large | $0.00 | $0.093 | $0.093 |
t2.xlarge | $0.00 | $0.186 | $0.186 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.00 | $0.371 | $0.371 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.00 | $0.01 | $0.01 |
t3.small | $0.00 | $0.021 | $0.021 |
t3.medium | $0.00 | $0.042 | $0.042 |
t3.large | $0.00 | $0.083 | $0.083 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
N/A
Legal
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
- Maintenance release
- Updated wordpress-plugin-google-analytics-for-wordpress to 9.2.4
Additional details
Usage instructions
Once the instance is running, enter the public DNS provided by Amazon into your browser. You will then see the WordPress application. You can go to '/wp-admin/' from your browser to access the application administration panel. The default server administrator is 'user'. Please check our documentation at https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/faq/get-started/find-credentials/ to learn how to get your password. You may change this username and password within the application settings. You can also access your instance via SSH using the username 'bitnami' and your Amazon private key. For additional setup instructions and frequently asked questions please go to https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/wordpress/
Resources
Vendor resources
Support
Vendor support
Bitnami also provides technical documentation for installation and setup issues through our support center at
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Does it contain miner malware?
I have been using Bitnami for 3 years, on multiple accounts, and every day I get dozens of emails "your website is down", cpu credit balance is almost always less than 1 even though no one is accessing the website.
I used to think that it was normal and the reason was that my website was too heavy for the free t2micro.
Until I tried other wordpress options (sadly not free) I realized that t2micro can run my wordpress smoothly for months without any downtime, CPU credit is always at maximum. Tried to change back to Bitnami and instant crashdown as usual.
Bitnami seems legit and I never thought they could use user resources to run miners but the reality makes me doubt...
Works well but is missing IPv6-only support
This image works well, it does what you would expect. I have a blog running for a couple years now without any glitches.
Now AWS is charging public IPv4s, we need this image to start supporting IPv6 only.
It's working fine
No problems at all with this AMI, but it's running one single and not so much visited website with a template from Monstertemplate and a few plugins.
Lots of problems initially but my site is happy now.
It took a lot of work and patience to make this work. The bitnami website is absolutely full of documented tricks and tips so do a lot of reading before you start. New releases come out quite frequently but you need to start from scratch and 'migrate' which is a lot of work. You also lose all of the custom work you have done so you will need to keep a manual record of everything you do.
I am about 10 releases behind, but I just can't afford the downtime to migrate as my ecommerce site is my primary source of income. I am trying to set up a load balancer and the learning curve is steep to get this to work. I can wrap my head around migrating to RDS but I am having trouble with https. I installed my cert using certbot on EC2 which is great but now ALB wants to do all that. I think there is a conflict. Not sure where to go next.
Good job.
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