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AWS-ready WordPress architecture

Build in WordPress. Run the platform on AWS.

Keep WordPress as the familiar content, editing, layout, and admin layer while identity, APIs, static delivery, AI, workflows, and protected runtime logic run through modular services in the customer’s AWS account.

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Runtime model

Visitor or editor
 ↓ 
WordPress experience layer
 ↓ 
WP Suite integration layer
 ↓ 
Customer-owned AWS services

WordPress remains the CMS and working environment. The AWS account, deployed infrastructure, runtime data, and service costs remain under customer control.

Architecture overview showing how WP Suite connects the WordPress layer, WP Suite plugins, and customer-owned AWS runtime services.
WP Suite keeps WordPress as the familiar editing and admin layer while moving authentication, publishing, AI, workflows, and backend runtime services to AWS.

Platform capabilities

Add cloud capabilities without turning WordPress into the application backend.

Start with the requirement already present in a project, then add other modules without changing the overall ownership model or editorial workflow.

Identity and protected access

Use Gatey with Amazon Cognito for sign-in, registration, SSO, MFA, user attributes, protected experiences, and JWT- or IAM-secured API access.

AI and knowledge experiences

Use AI-Kit for on-device tools, knowledge-base search, DocSearch, chat experiences, and optional AWS-backed processing when the browser is not the right runtime.

Forms and workflow entry points

Use Flow for forms, multi-step journeys, process maps, webhooks, file uploads, email actions, and event-driven workflow paths.

Static delivery and protected frontends

Export WordPress output for S3 and CloudFront delivery, then combine static pages with browser-based authentication and AWS-backed application features.

Visual summary of WP Suite benefits: secure authentication, static publishing, AI and workflow extensions, customer-owned AWS infrastructure, and developer-friendly integrations.
WP Suite helps teams keep WordPress while upgrading the runtime around it: secure access, static publishing, AI, workflows, and customer-owned AWS infrastructure.

Platform layers

Each layer has one clear responsibility.

01

Experience layer

The browser renders the public site, authenticated journeys, editor-facing tools, and customer-facing interactions. The frontend may remain in WordPress, go headless, or be exported statically.

02

Content layer

WordPress manages content models, media, editorial workflows, page building, and the admin experience teams already know.

03

Integration layer

WP Suite blocks, plugins, configuration, and browser-side utilities connect the WordPress experience to authentication, APIs, AI, publishing, and workflows.

04

AWS runtime layer

Services such as Cognito, API Gateway, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, Bedrock, WAF, and EventBridge provide the deployed runtime in the target AWS account.

Adoption path

Start with one need. Expand into a platform.

WP Suite is modular, so an existing WordPress project can adopt the architecture incrementally instead of being rebuilt as one large migration.

  1. Choose the first boundary — Identify the immediate requirement: authentication, protected APIs, AI, workflow automation, or static delivery.
  2. Connect the WordPress site — Install and configure the relevant WP Suite module where editors and developers already manage the project.
  3. Deploy the required AWS services — Provision only the backend components the use case needs in the customer or target AWS account.
  4. Reuse and extend — Add further capabilities through the same integration and ownership model as project requirements grow.
Step-by-step roadmap showing how an existing WordPress site can become a secure AWS-backed application platform using WP Suite.
A practical rollout path: start with WordPress, connect the site, deploy AWS infrastructure, add authentication, publish statically, protect routes, then extend with AI and workflows.
Architecture overview showing how WP Suite connects the WordPress layer, WP Suite plugins, and customer-owned AWS runtime services.
WP Suite keeps WordPress as the familiar editing and admin layer while moving authentication, publishing, AI, workflows, and backend runtime services to AWS.
Visual summary of WP Suite benefits: secure authentication, static publishing, AI and workflow extensions, customer-owned AWS infrastructure, and developer-friendly integrations.
WP Suite helps teams keep WordPress while upgrading the runtime around it: secure access, static publishing, AI, workflows, and customer-owned AWS infrastructure.
Step-by-step roadmap showing how an existing WordPress site can become a secure AWS-backed application platform using WP Suite.
A practical rollout path: start with WordPress, connect the site, deploy AWS infrastructure, add authentication, publish statically, protect routes, then extend with AI and workflows.
Diagram showing WP Suite admin modules and frontend integrations for Gutenberg blocks, shortcodes, Elementor widgets, CSS variables, and JavaScript utilities.
WP Suite is managed where WordPress teams already work — inside WP Admin — and rendered through familiar frontend tools like blocks, shortcodes, Elementor widgets, CSS variables, and JavaScript utilities.

Next step

Deploy the runtime your WordPress project actually needs.

Review the available backend components, choose the services required for the current use case, and keep the architecture ready for later expansion.

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