The new NorthStack platform disaggregates the usual stack that WordPress requires into a series of services that largely run on serverless infrastructure at Amazon Web Services (AWS). The NorthStack effort is an attempt to lower the fixed costs and infrastructure needed to deploy and run WordPress.
“WordPress itself is based on 12 year old code, it does not want to be in a serverless environment,” Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely told eWEEK. “WordPress wants to live on one AWS EC2 node up next to its’ database with everything all contained in it.”