AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Farhad Jahangirov
Farhad Jahangirov is a professional services (ProServe) consultant at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He works with local government, education, and nonprofit organizations in the United Kingdom to help accelerate their journey to the cloud. His background includes networking, storage, backup, and recovery. Farhad is based in Reading, UK.
Using AWS for on-premises WordPress site continuity
Applications running on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack are ubiquitous—WordPress alone represents 38% of all content management systems. Because of the popularity of these applications, public sector organisations such as educational institutions should protect their business continuity by implementing disaster recovery (DR) solutions: policies, tools, and procedures to help the recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure and systems following a disaster. AWS Professional Services created a business continuity solution for on-premises LAMP applications that could eliminate the need for physical backup infrastructure and improve recovery time. The solution was recently piloted by Cardiff University.