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.
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High-level architecture of the AWS WordPress Multisite migration.