Gets a $3000 bill because they picked the wrong instance type.

The good news is, based on the diagram looking like it’s straight from AWS docs, there’s a Cloud formation template for all that.
Bad news, good luck troubleshooting any of it if something breaks

Arstechnica runs on WordPress on AWS, and they have a really nice series of articles about it. Sure, you could use just one EC2 instance for everything, but on a high traffic website you would need a bit more.

Last time I tried aws, took me like four hours to figure that I had to borrow another IP address (different than the ip I received when created the instance) in order point it at my domain. Took me a long time find that option in the menu too

Edit:added cohesion and some punctuation.

Gotta do that for my blog. It’ll score me my next job. Might cost me $300 a month for a blog no one reads.