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I have been doing a lot technical troubleshooting and research, regarding AWS(Amazon Web Services) hosting of an organization website on a remote webserver, The organization deployed a wordpress website running on domain hosting service(Route 53),the site is running but am not seeing any instance on EC2 which might be associated to it.However,the person who deployed the site, is saying that the site is running on an instance, but I have not seen it on the listings of EC2

Could this mean that the site might be running without EC2 instance associated to it, besides being a dynamic site? After long hours figuring out on how I can access the site files(backend)..but nothing of help, I have decided to post this question here.

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    Lightsail instances do not show in the normal EC2 console. Commented Apr 25, 2021 at 17:26
  • @hardillb ,Thanks for your feedback. How do they show or how can I access them? Commented Apr 25, 2021 at 17:53
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    First, check if the DNS is pointed to an Amazon-owned IP. It's possible the instance is at a nother host and only Route 53 is being used at AWS. After that, check your AWS billing; it'll be broken down by service and region. There are many regions and services and it can be hard to find the right one at times. Commented Apr 25, 2021 at 19:01
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    Check other regions. The mains ways to run Wordpress in AWS is EC2 / Lightsail. It'd be nice to run it in lambda but that doesn't work yet. Commented Apr 25, 2021 at 19:29
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    Also, did you check every region? AWS has 25 regions, you would have to check them individually. Alternately check the billing console / cost explorer which would help narrow things down, as AWS is very good at billing for resources used. Commented Apr 26, 2021 at 7:27

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I will answer this so you can accept the answer and close the question off.

A good approach to finding resources in AWS is to use the AWS cost explorer. Any resources in any region will show on the bill. You may have to use search to find out what the entries / lines mean but it's not difficult. For example I recall APS2 is short for "Asia Pacific Southeast 2", ie Sydney.

As suggested above, check for EC2 and Lightsail instances in each region. A Route53 hosted zone can be created in any region and it makes little difference as it's a global resource. The EC2 instance has to be created in the region you want the server to be in, which affects latency.

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