I currently running WordPress installed on a VM’s hosted by Azure and looking into migrating from using Virtual servers to hosting a WebApp for our WordPress site rather than having to upgrade the everything on the server when its build gets obsolete.
I am aware of the Azure Marketplace WordPress Application option, but I was wondering if AWS had something similar or what its closest equivalency would be rather than just creating an EC2 VM.
If you want to run WordPress on AWS, it means running it on an EC2 instance, which is pretty much the same as you are already doing on a Azure VM.
WordPress is now on Azure Market place and you don’t need a VM to host your WordPress.
It will just create a Web Site in Azure and installs WordPress there, then you can make your changes to the WordPress instance if you wish:
use this link to get started:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/wordpress/wordpress/
This way you don’t need to worry about the VM management and you just use a hosting service and have the benefits of Cloud like Scaling out/up etc.