WordPress on AWS ECS

Terraform blueprint that deploys a robust and scalable WordPress on AWS using ECS Fargate, Aurora MySQL and WordPress container from Bitnami.

Change Log

All notable changes to this blueprint.

1.3.0 (2025-11-17)

  • Switch to Amazon ECR Public gallery for container images.
  • Upgrade Terraform AWS provider to v6 and update all Terraform modules for v6 compatibility.
  • Add DNS HTTPS resource record type to improve performance and security.
  • Add application layer (L7) DDoS protections ruleset support in the WAF configuration.

1.2.0 (2025-02-10)

  • The default CPU architecture is now ARM64, offering up to 20% savings on ECS.
  • Fargate CPU architecture is now configurable using the service_task_cpu_architecture input variable.
  • Added support for the Fargate Spot capacity provider; use service_task_spot_weight to define what percentage of tasks run on Fargate Spot.

Upgrading

  • Upgrading to ARM64 completes as a rolling process without downtime. To retain x86, set service_task_cpu_architecture to X86_64.
  • Enabling Fargate Spot recreates the ECS service, causing a brief service interruption.

1.1.9 (2024-08-23)

  • Add support for the new Amazon Aurora SSL/TLS CA.

1.1.8 (2024-08-03)

  • Updating to this version will perform rolling restart of the Aurora instances without downtime. This is due to the changes in the RDS module.

1.1.5 (2023-12-12)

  • Added EFS throughput mode configuration

1.1.0 (2023-08-15)

  • Added WAF protection

1.0.0 (2023-07-27)

  • Initial release
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