The platform is the foundation of your website. Without a solid, secure platform: your website is just like a house built on the sand. We recommend Amazon Web Services (AWS) as your platform of choice, as you are only charged for the resources you actually use, and services and resources automatically scale with your business growth. Why is AWS better than cPanel? Benefits of AWS: Total control of the EC2 instance. Although cPanel has a tool to upload files, the cPanel is not widely used for this function since it uses an FTP client such as Filezilla. Using Amazon EFS, you'll have a simple, highly available, and scalable network file system so WordPress instances have access to your shared, unstructured WordPress data, like php files, config, themes, plugins, etc.