I was going to build out a hilariously over-complicated & fiendishly expensive WordPress architecture as a joke, but unfortunately @awscloud beat me to it. pic.twitter.com/M8kcWwOV8t

— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) April 16, 2020

That architecture is aimed at a WordPress site that serves millions of users and requires four or five nines. It’s reasonable in that context and close to what I’d build.

If you wanted to launch a small-scale WordPress site fairly easily, here’s what you’d do. That’d cost $10-$15 a month wheras the other one would probably be at last $2,000 (haven’t priced it out) and potentially a lot more depending on autoscaling.

For an architecture that’d do just fine in almost all cases, here’s what you’d do. That’d work for 99% of enterprise clients.

There’s just an enormous difference between infrastructure designed for four or five nines that serves millions of users and a WordPress site that sees hundreds of visitors a day.