Migration from Godaddy to AWS - website hosting for 20 domains
I'm new to AWS. Just about to do an AWS Cloud Practitioner certification in a month or so's time for my cybersecurity course at Masterschool. I don't really understand exactly what AWS is capable of and how it can be applicable to my web activities on a personal level. I have used Godaddy for website domain purchase and host about 20 or so domains there and build the websites mainly in Wordpress. Over the past five years there has been significant price increases at Godaddy across the board and this has been matched with a noticeable decline in customer support. I am therefore looking to migrate everything across to AWS. Is this possible? Can anyone point me in the right direction of what I need to be looking at and learning and doing and also on the sort of costs that I can expect to be paying. Can I literally shift everything including future domain purchase and renewal from GoDaddy to AWS or do I need to retain GoDaddy for some stuff? I'm a free tier trial at the moment at AWS. I just want a sustainable long term web solution that I can work and build. I like Amazon a lot anyway and I'm sure that AWS will be the platform that I will use a lot into the future. Thanks @wezg Four Four Cyber
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Hi, LightSail (with its WP features) is probably where you want to start: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/launch-a-wordpress-website/
LightSail: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
For DNS hosting: route53 is very advanced: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/
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Thank you for your information Didier. I have checked all the links and had a good investigation. In the meantime GoDaddy support and customer retention has proved non-existent so decision to move becomes very easy indeed. I'm just stuck on a couple of issues. The billing isn't clear. I have about 20 domains to transfer and am unsure about setting up individual instances of wordpress on lightsail. I want to move the entire hosting really - I noticed there was a cpanel option which is what I have on godaddy host package. I'm just wondering if you know any shortcuts for a mass package - for cheaper billing and ease of use. I did see something about multiple wordpress but it seemed to be targeting universities or places where multiple people are editing a site. One thing holding ,e back is the route53 complete domain transfer as a couple of domains are new and due to changes on DNS i think they lock down the necessary release code for transfer for two months. I'm sure I could just set up and somehow change nameservers before complete domain transfer. I'm going to get started anyway. And as a 'startup' I've taken particular interest in the $100000 dollar potential AWS credits that I think I should strive to qualify for. I'm trying to follow up on that - again a bit confusing. I hope that my initiaizing a working AWS account &getting started that it doesn't exclude me from any potential business angel investment in Four Four Cyber. Started researching. Mystery of AWS unravelling