Cloud technology can give applications greater flexibility, but it can be more complicated to maintain, especially if you’re working with a legacy, monolithic application. However, with a few tweaks, even older codebases can be converted to be able to run in the cloud. This is a look at how we moved a WordPress installation serving nearly 1 million hits per day into the cloud on AWS and dealt with challenges such as managing uploads, distributing responsibilities across different services and managing the transition with minimal downtime.