What the LAMP is that? A wise man with a very gray beard once told me that is usually best to start at the beginning. The first step in this particular journey, to create a Linux Apache MySQL PHP web server, is joining the Collective…

GOTO https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/start.

Fill out the account creation forms.

Fill out the payment form.

Verify your phone number.

Select a support plan.

Sign in with your email.

Prove your not a low-end bot.

Then, finally, Enter your password.

This will log you in as the Root user. Don’t use the Root account unless you have a good reason. Instead, the very next thing I will do is set up a IAM user that will manage the new WordPress Multisite Network.