This is no bare-bones install! At the heart of this Wordpress AMI is a high performance, optimized collection of Docker containers using Nginx, Redis, MariaDB and PHP-FPM . Our modern stack of Docker services provides an automated install of Wordpress into an environment with advanced performance optimizations, web and mobile acceleration, security controls, application monitoring, and management. We are providing an unparalleled deployment that works "out-of-the-box" while providing more sophisticated users the ability to customize as the need arises. Here are some of the core features included in this AMI:

• Nginx setup as a reverse proxy
• SEO optimizations
• Customizable configurations
• Lets Encrypt TLS/SSL pre-configured
• Mime-type based caching
• Redis LRU cache
• Fastcgi cache
• PHP-FPM with Opcache enabled (see https://github.com/openbridge/ob_php-fpm)
• Proxy cache
• Using in-memory (tmpfs) as the file cache location
• Brotli and Gzip compression
• Server level redirects for moved page content
• Security & Bot Protection
• Monitoring processes, ports, permissions... with Monit
• Standardized UID/GID and Permissions (www-data)
• Support GeoIP
• Rate limited connections to slow down attackers
• CDN support
• Cache purge
• Paired with high-performance PHP-FPM, MariaDB and Redis containers
• WP-CLI installed
• Logging into Cloudwatch (requires configuration)