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Assessment 3: Applied Cloud Concepts in AWS

Charles Sturt University

Submitted to: Associate Professor Daniel Saffioti Lecturer, Cloud Computing (ITC561) Charles Sturt University

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Information Technology (12 subjects)

Sydney, Australia April 28, 2019

Creating WordPress on AWS 1. First login to your AWS educate account. 2. Then, click on AWS Account which is on top left corner of the page.

3. After that, click on AWS Educate Starter Account.

4. Then, click on AWS Console.

5. After that, click on Launch a virtual machine under Build a solution section.

6. Launch Instance Wizard will open after that.

7. Type wordpress in the search bar and press enter. Then, click on Community AMIs.

8. Scroll down and select bitnami-wordpress-4.9.4-6-linux-redhat-7.4-x86_64-hvm-ebs ami-007cac8539c545de9.

9. By default, General purpose is selected. Just click on Next: Configure Instance Details.

10. Then, click on Next: Add Storage after that.

11. After that, just click on Next: Add Tags.

12. Then, click on Add Tag.

13. Type anything you want in the Key and Value sections in order to name your instance. Then, click on Next: Configure Security Group.

14. In the Source section of SSH, select Anywhere. Then, click on Add Rule.

15. In the Type section for new rule, select HTTP. Then, select Anywhere in the Source section for HTTP and type anything you want in the description sections for both SSH and HTTP. After that, select Review Launch.

16. Simply, click on Launch after that.

17. Then, new wizard will open for creating and downloading key. Select Create a new key pair and enter a Key pair name. Then, click on Download Key Pair. Your key pair will be downloaded automatically. After that, click on Launch Instances.

18. Then, click on View Instances.

19. Hence, your WordPress instance is created and is running.

Adding Comments and Photos or Screenshots 1. First, go to your WordPress site by copying IPv4 Public IP and pasting in web address section of your browser.

2. Then, web page will open like below. Click on Access on application.

3. WordPress site will open after that. Scroll down and click on Log in.

4. New wizard will open, where you have to enter the username and password for the WordPress you created.

5. In order to get username and password, you have to go back to your AWS Console. Select the WordPress instance that you just created. Right click on that. Go to Instance Settings and select Get System Log.

6. System log will open like below.

7. Scroll down the system log until you locate the username and password. Use that to log in to your WordPress.

8. After logging in to your WordPress, Dashboard will open like below.

9. Click on Posts from the Dashboard menu.

10. Then, click on Add New.

11. Type anything you want to post in your WordPress blog. After that, click on Add Media to post images for the same.

12. New wizard will open like below.

13. Click on Select Files and open a photo you want to add.

14. Select the photo and click on Insert into Post.

15. It will show up like below. Click on Update.

16. For adding comments for the posts, click on Screen Options.

17. Then, tick on Comments.

18. Then, click on Add Comment after that.

19. Type anything you want to comment about the post and click on Add Comment.

20. It will show up like below.

21. After that, when you go to your WordPress site. Your post will show up like below.

Securing WordPress Site 1. Use HTTP instead of HTTPS while configuring security group in the process of creating WordPress. 2. Firewall can also be enabled in order to secure your WordPress site. 3. WordPress security plugins like Sucuri Security, WordFence, BulletProof Security and so on can be installed [ CITATION Jac19 \l 1033 ]. 4. When you are finished creating WordPress site and the site is live and running, you can disable appearance editor and plugins editor because if the hackers gain access to your site, they can insert malicious codes to the plugins and theme of your WordPress site. 5. You can change your WordPress login URL. 6. You can also limit the number of attempts to login. 7. You can set up automatic backups of your WordPress site. 8. You can update the version of your WordPress time and again [ CITATION Res18 \l 1033 ].

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Providing Users with Secure Access to WordPress Site You can set up separate secure client portal for your WordPress users. You can limit the login attempts for your WordPress users. You can also limit the number of accesses to login to particular IP addresses. You can recommend your WordPress users to use strong passwords. You can implement two step verification for the WordPress users to login [ CITATION Vis18 \l 1033 ].

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