If it is a static website or can be converted to one for a short period. You could just have AWS Cloudfront [1] sitting in front of your website acting as a cac

If it is a static website or can be converted to one for a short period. You could just have AWS Cloudfront [1] sitting in front of your website acting as a cache. You then redirect all requests to Cloudfront. It'll at most cost a small small faction of that. I probably wouldn't go the route of setting up your own dedicated boxes since you have a time crunch and you might not configure things correctly (as you'd need to load test, etc). The Cloudfront option will take a few hours to setup and test if you've never done it before (about 25 minutes if you have). Cost wise, it is pay as you go. But, you can use the AWS calculator [2] to get a ball park figure. A big traffic spike would probably only cost you $100-200 bucks or something (many millions of hits over a couple days). It all depends on how much data you are pushing, so if you have tons of large files, or binary objects, you need to think about that. www.kaylacares4kids.org -> AWS Cloudfront Cache -> Wordpress AWS will take the pounding and your site will be fine. You can do the same thing with CloudFlare but I've only used Cloudfront (as the other comment mentions). [1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ [2] https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html