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  • AzureAvailable on Microsoft Azure
  • GCP· nextGoogle Cloud is next on the roadmap
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WordPress CMS

WordPress 7.1 already installed - no five-minute setup - with WP-CLI, Apache, PHP 8.3, MySQL 8.0, phpMyAdmin, Webmin and certbot ready for the day you add a domain. The site address follows your public IP safely (only hostnames the instance owns are honoured), wp-cron runs from real cron, and plugin installs never ask for FTP.

Version
v7.1
Operating system
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Architecture
x86_64
Support
Email support

What's installed

Every package and version on the image, identical on every cloud it ships on. Nothing else is installed.

  • WordPress 7.1
  • WP-CLI 2.12.0
  • Apache 2.4.58
  • PHP 8.3.6
  • MySQL 8.0.46
  • phpMyAdmin 5.2.3
  • Webmin 2.660
  • certbot

LicensingOpen source (GPL-2.0), no licence key required

Deploy anywhere

WordPress CMS on AWS and Azure.

Google Cloud is next on the roadmap. One clean-room build, one first-boot credential model, one patch cadence — identical on every cloud you run. Every identifier below is the real one; copy it and launch.

  1. AWS
    Available

    Amazon Web Services

    AMI · v7.1

    AWS AMI ID

    Shown for your region on the AWS Marketplace launch page once you subscribe.

    Released
    Root volume
    gp3 · 30 GiB
    Instance types
    • t3a.medium
    • t3.medium
    • t3a.large
    • m6a.large
    Regions34 regions· show all
    • us-east-1
    • af-south-1
    • ap-east-1
    • ap-east-2
    • ap-northeast-1
    • ap-northeast-2
    • ap-northeast-3
    • ap-south-1
    • ap-south-2
    • ap-southeast-1
    • ap-southeast-2
    • ap-southeast-3
    • ap-southeast-4
    • ap-southeast-5
    • ap-southeast-6
    • ap-southeast-7
    • ca-central-1
    • ca-west-1
    • eu-central-1
    • eu-central-2
    • eu-north-1
    • eu-south-1
    • eu-south-2
    • eu-west-1
    • eu-west-2
    • eu-west-3
    • il-central-1
    • me-central-1
    • me-south-1
    • mx-central-1
    • sa-east-1
    • us-east-2
    • us-west-1
    • us-west-2
    Launch on AWS MarketplaceAWS launch steps

    5-day free trial, then from $0.03/hr software charge (larger instance sizes cost more) plus your own EC2 costs, billed by AWS.

    Subscriptions are open to AWS India (AISPL) accounts. Outside India? Ask us for a private build.

  2. Azure
    Available

    Microsoft Azure

    Compute Gallery image · v7.1.2

    Azure Compute Gallery image ID

    Selected for you when you create the VM from the Azure Marketplace listing.

    Released
    OS disk
    Premium_LRS · 30 GiB
    VM sizes
    • Standard_D2as_v7
    • Standard_D2as_v5
    • Standard_B2ms
    • Standard_D4as_v7
    Regions50 regions· show all
    • eastus
    • australiacentral
    • australiaeast
    • australiasoutheast
    • austriaeast
    • belgiumcentral
    • brazilsouth
    • canadacentral
    • canadaeast
    • centralindia
    • centralus
    • chilecentral
    • denmarkeast
    • eastasia
    • eastus2
    • francecentral
    • germanywestcentral
    • indiasouthcentral
    • indonesiacentral
    • israelcentral
    • italynorth
    • japaneast
    • japanwest
    • jioindiawest
    • koreacentral
    • koreasouth
    • malaysiawest
    • mexicocentral
    • newzealandnorth
    • northcentralus
    • northeurope
    • norwayeast
    • polandcentral
    • qatarcentral
    • southafricanorth
    • southcentralus
    • southeastasia
    • southindia
    • spaincentral
    • swedencentral
    • switzerlandnorth
    • uaenorth
    • uksouth
    • ukwest
    • westcentralus
    • westeurope
    • westindia
    • westus
    • westus2
    • westus3
    Launch on Azure MarketplaceAzure launch steps
AWS

Getting started on Amazon Web Services

From launch to signed in, step by step.

  1. Subscribe on AWS Marketplace and launch in your region with TCP 22, 80 and 8000 open; wait two to three minutes.

  2. Site: http://<instance-public-ip>/. Admin: http://<instance-public-ip>/wp-admin, username admin. phpMyAdmin: /phpmyadmin (username root). Webmin: port 8000 (username admin). The password for all three is your EC2 Instance ID (for example i-0123456789abcdef0).

  3. Add your own domain with sudo bash /home/ubuntu/iscripts/wp_url.sh, then sudo certbot --apache -d your.domain for free HTTPS.

  4. SSH as ubuntu with your key pair. Change passwords with pass_wordpress.sh, pass_mysql.sh or pass_webmin.sh; wordpress_status.sh shows versions, endpoints, post counts and available updates.

  5. PHP allows 64 MB uploads and 512 MB memory. MySQL is loopback-only.

Security posture

What this AWS image does and does not ship with, one fact per line.

  • Clean-room build on Canonical's official Ubuntu 24.04 LTS image: every component comes from its own official repository or release, nothing is copied from any third-party image, and the finished image was scanned for third-party vendor strings before capture.

  • No usable credential ships in the image; passwords are set on your instance at first boot from EC2 instance metadata (IMDSv2) and the scripts that set them delete themselves afterwards.

  • SSH is key-only, root login over SSH is refused, and build-time SSH keys, shell history and logs were removed before imaging.

  • WordPress was fetched from wordpress.org with md5 verified, WP-CLI from its official phar with sha512 verified, and phpMyAdmin with sha256 verified.

  • First boot generates fresh WordPress salts, a new database password, the admin password, the phpMyAdmin cookie key and control-user password, and the MySQL root and maintenance passwords, then proves the admin login with a real wp-login.php round trip.

  • Site URL derivation accepts only hostnames the instance owns, refreshed every boot, so Host-header injection cannot rewrite the site address.

  • MySQL is loopback-only.

  • The bundled password tools enforce at least 10 characters with upper- and lower-case letters, a number and a symbol, and verify the new credential with a real sign-in before reporting success.

  • The image is HTTP-only by design so it works at a bare IP with no certificate warnings: terminate TLS at a load balancer or add a certificate before exposing it publicly, and restrict port 22 and any admin ports to trusted IP ranges in your security group.

Azure

Getting started on Microsoft Azure

From launch to signed in, step by step.

  1. Create the VM from the Azure Marketplace listing with TCP 22, 80 and 8000 open in your network security group. Choose ubuntu as the administrator username so SSH and the script paths match. Wait about two minutes for first boot.

  2. Your site is http://<vm-public-ip>/ and the dashboard is at /wp-admin - sign in as admin. phpMyAdmin is at /phpmyadmin (username root) and Webmin on port 8000 (username admin or root).

  3. The password is your VM ID: in the Azure portal open the virtual machine, choose Properties and copy VM ID - a 36-character value such as 02aab8a4-74ef-476e-8182-f6d2ba4166a6, typed exactly as shown in lower case.

  4. SSH as ubuntu with your key; wp is on your PATH for WP-CLI. Change passwords with sudo bash ~/iscripts/pass_wordpress.sh, pass_mysql.sh or pass_webmin.sh.

Security posture

What this Azure image does and does not ship with, one fact per line.

  • Clean-room build on Canonical's official Ubuntu image from the Azure Marketplace: every component comes from its own official source and no third-party image was launched or copied.

  • The WordPress administrator, MySQL root and Webmin passwords are all set on first boot from your VM's own vmId, and WordPress's authentication salts are regenerated per VM so no two deployments share a session secret.

  • The pre-image cleanup proves the build's own credentials are rejected before capture, and first boot sets every password from the new VM's own vmId, read from Azure IMDS.

  • The ubuntu login account ships password-locked with an empty authorized_keys, and cloud-init installs your own SSH key at deploy time.

  • Shell history, logs and cloud-init state are cleared before capture.

  • Verified against Microsoft's documented Linux certification test cases on a VM deployed from this gallery version - 13 passed, 0 failures - with VM extension provisioning confirmed and every helper script executed rather than only reviewed.

  • Restrict port 22 to trusted IP ranges, and put the consoles behind HTTPS with your own certificate before exposing them to the internet.