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A Global Digital Publishing Company Migrates Its WordPress Platform to AWS Using Amazon ECS

A global digital publishing company partnered with allOps Solutions to migrate its WordPress platform from managed hosting and virtual machines to AWS using Amazon ECS, improving security, scalability, and operational control through a standardized, automated architecture.

At a Glance

  • Industry Online media
  • Engagement Type Cloud Strategy & Architecture, DevOps as a Service

Client

The customer operates multiple WordPress-based digital properties with global reach and variable traffic patterns. The platform must support frequent content updates, marketing-driven traffic spikes, and consistent performance across all sites.
Operating across several hosting providers, limited visibility, scalability, and the ability to enforce uniform operational and security standards.

Challenge

The customer faced several challenges with its existing setup:

  • Limited control over infrastructure and security configuration
  • Inconsistent deployment and release processes
  • Fragmented monitoring and operational visibility
  • Difficulty scaling efficiently during traffic peaks
  • A unified, cloud-native platform was required to support multiple sites with consistent governance and reliability.

Our Solution

allOps Solutions designed and implemented a standardized AWS-based architecture using containerized WordPress deployments. The platform leverages managed AWS services to provide high availability, security, and automation while reducing operational complexity.
Key elements of the solution included container orchestration, managed databases, shared storage for media assets, centralized security controls, and automated deployment pipelines.

AWS Services used

  • Amazon CloudFront
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Amazon ECS
  • Amazon EFS
  • Amazon Elastic Container Registry
  • Amazon ElastiCache
  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon Route 53
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon VPC
  • AWS Certificate Manager
  • Elastic Load Balancing

Results

The new AWS platform enables the customer to operate its digital publishing portfolio with greater confidence, flexibility, and control, while aligning infrastructure operations with long-term scalability and cost-efficiency goals.

  • Improved reliability and availability across all WordPress sites
  • Consistent security standards and governance
  • Faster and safer application deployments
  • Centralized operational visibility
  • A scalable foundation to support future growth

About allOps Solutions

allOps Solutions is a cloud and DevOps consulting company specializing in designing, building, and operating cloud-native workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS). As an AWS Partner, allOps Solutions helps customers modernize applications, migrate legacy workloads, and establish secure, scalable, and automated cloud platforms, with a strong focus on operational excellence, reliability, and long-term sustainability.

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