Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with Yapixx: WordPress on S3

OblakSoft provides an AMI with Amazon Linux, ClouSE, MySQL server, Apache, PHP and WordPress preinstalled. WordPress is configured as a Yet Another Picture Sharing Site - Yapixx.

The AMI is registered in the US East (Virginia) Region so when launching instances using this AMI please make sure to pick the US East (Virginia) Region in the AWS management console or provide the --region us-east-1 flag to the command line tools. The instances launched using this AMIs will run in the US East (Virginia) Region.

IMPORTANT: When launching an instance please make sure to configure the firewall (a.k.a. security group) to enable the following inbound connections: TCP ports 80 (HTTP), 443 (HTTPS), and 22 (SSH).

After the instance is up and running, just connect to the instance from a web browser. You will need to enter Amazon S3 authentication and data location information to configure cloud storage connection.

NOTE: The admin password is !!123abc. For security reasons, please change the admin password as soon as possible.

That's it! You've got your own WordPress site running on Amazon S3.

There are thousands of plugins and themes written for WordPress that can transform the website into pretty much anything. And now it can run with Amazon S3 without writing a line of code.

To get started with Amazon EC2 please refer to http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts.html.
For more information about launching instances please refer to http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/LaunchingAndUsingInstances.html.