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Creating a Second WordPress Instance

Learn to create a second web server to make our blog highly available.

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To create a second WordPress instance, we can reuse our launch template with the updated parameters. We stored it under the name custom-wordpress-vpc.

Run the following command in the terminal below:

Shell
aws ec2 run-instances \
  --launch-template 'LaunchTemplateName=custom-wordpress-vpc' \
  --query 'Instances[*].{InstanceId:InstanceId,PublicIpAddress:PublicIpAddress}' \
  --output text

This command should be familiar because we have used it before. Just as a refresher, these are the required parameters:

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