Case study

Containerized Enterprise Migration: AWS WordPress Multisite Modernization

Project Overview

Spearheaded a full-scale migration of 15+ standalone WordPress environments from individual EC2 instances to a modern, containerized architecture using Amazon ECS, Application Load Balancers, EFS, and Aurora MySQL.

Designed and implemented a custom WordPress Multisite configuration to centralize tenant management and content isolation. This overhaul reduced infrastructure maintenance overhead by 60% while improving deployment consistency and resilience.

Technical Implementation

  • Deployed WordPress containers across ECS Fargate with ALBs for domain-based tenant routing.
  • Configured EFS for persistent shared storage across tasks.
  • Migrated MySQL databases to Aurora for scalability and performance.
  • Implemented automated blue/green deployments through AWS CodePipeline and GitHub Actions.
  • Integrated custom health checks and log aggregation via CloudWatch and OpenSearch.

Outcome

This migration improved uptime, automated scaling, and simplified content management across dozens of sites, transforming a legacy hosting model into a highly available, DevOps-driven platform.

AWSECSAuroraEFSALBDockerWordPress MultisiteCI/CDCodePipelineGitHub Actions

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High-level architecture of the AWS WordPress Multisite migration.