diff --git a/applications/mysql/mysql-start.sh b/applications/mysql/mysql-start.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b48fb7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/applications/mysql/mysql-start.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+echo "****************************************************************"
+echo "Restarting MYSQL"
+echo "****************************************************************"
+systemctl restart mysql.service
diff --git a/applications/mysql/mysql.sh b/applications/mysql/mysql.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..af9c03f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/applications/mysql/mysql.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Stop Script on Error
+set -e
+
+# For Debugging (print env. variables into a file)  
+printenv > /var/log/colony-vars-"$(basename "$BASH_SOURCE" .sh)".txt
+ 
+apt-get update -y
+
+# Preparing MYSQL for silent installation
+export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive"
+echo "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password $DB_PASS" | debconf-set-selections
+echo "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password $DB_PASS" | debconf-set-selections
+
+
+# Installing MYSQL
+apt-get install mysql-server -y
+#apt-get install mysql-client -y
+
+
+# Setting up local permission file
+mkdir /home/pk;
+bash -c "cat >> /home/pk/my.cnf" <<EOL
+[client]
+## for local server use localhost
+host=localhost
+user=$DB_USER
+password=$DB_PASS
+ 
+[mysql]
+pager=/usr/bin/less
+EOL
+
+# Creating database
+mysql --defaults-extra-file=/home/pk/my.cnf << EOF
+CREATE DATABASE ${DB_NAME};
+EOF
+
+# Configuring Remote Connection Access: updating sql config to not bind to a specific address
+sed -i 's/bind-address/#bind-address/g' /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
+
+# granting db access
+mysql --defaults-extra-file=/home/pk/my.cnf << EOF
+GRANT ALL ON *.* TO ${DB_USER}@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '${DB_PASS}';
+EOF
+
+mysql --defaults-extra-file=/home/pk/my.cnf -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
+
+
+
+
+© 2021 GitHub, Inc.
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diff --git a/applications/mysql/mysql.yaml b/applications/mysql/mysql.yaml
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index 0000000..9df79b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/applications/mysql/mysql.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#
+# This application file defines how to deploy and configure a MySQL server
+#
+---
+spec_version: 1
+kind: application
+
+# These inputs are used by the initialization script to set up
+# a database administrator account
+inputs:
+  - DB_USER
+  - DB_PASS
+  - DB_NAME
+
+# This section defines the infrastructure requirements for the application
+infrastructure:
+  # Specify the compute requirement for this app
+  # if we don't specify anything the default will be used
+  compute:
+    spec:
+      aws:
+        instance_type: t2.medium
+      azure:
+        vm_size: Basic_A2
+  connectivity:
+    # Port 3306 will be opened internally to receive database requests
+    internal:
+      - port_info:
+          port: 3306
+
+source:
+  os_type: linux
+  image:
+    # This is a clean Ubuntu server image that will
+    # be used to create a new EC2 instance in the defined
+    # AWS region
+    ami:
+      - id: ami-03ef731cc103c9f09
+        region: us-east-1
+        username: ubuntu
+    azure_image:
+      - urn: Canonical:UbuntuServer:16.04-LTS:latest
+        username: adminuser
+    docker_image:
+      - tag: 16.04
+        name: ubuntu
+
+configuration:
+  # The initialization script is intended to install
+  # app prerequisite and initialize the OS
+  # This script installs mysql on a clean Ubuntu OS,
+  # sets up a root account and creates an empty database
+  # for the application
+  initialization:
+    script: mysql.sh
+  # This script restarts the mysql.service process after
+  # the initialization completes
+  # The start script contains the commands
+  # needed to start the application process
+  start:
+    script: mysql-start.sh
+  # To validate the installation, we wait to see that
+  # the ports are available
+  healthcheck:
+    wait_for_ports: ALL
+    timeout: 300
+
+debugging:
+  connection_protocol: SSH
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/applications/sample-api/health-check.sh b/applications/sample-api/health-check.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cfd7a09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/applications/sample-api/health-check.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+echo 'Health Check Success!'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/applications/sample-api/sample-api-command.sh b/applications/sample-api/sample-api-command.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48a15a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/applications/sample-api/sample-api-command.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+echo "starting secrets-manager-api"
diff --git a/applications/sample-api/sample-api.sh b/applications/sample-api/sample-api.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c84e0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/applications/sample-api/sample-api.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+echo "********************Initialization started*********************"
+# Stop Script on Error
+set -e
+
+# For Debugging (print env. variables into a file)  
+printenv > /var/log/colony-vars-"$(basename "$BASH_SOURCE" .sh)".txt
+
+# Update packages and Upgrade system
+echo "****************************************************************"
+echo "Updating System"
+echo "****************************************************************"
+apt-get update -y
+
+
+echo "****************************************************************"
+echo "Installing python"
+echo "****************************************************************"
+sudo apt install -y software-properties-common
+sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
+sudo apt update -y
+sudo apt install -y python3.8
+sudo apt install -y python3-pip
+echo python3 --version
+
+python3 -m pip install -U numpy --user
+python3 -m pip install -U setuptools --user
+python3 -m pip install -U Flask --user
+
+echo "*********************************************"
+# echo "last try for python installation"
+# sudo apt install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev libnss3-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev wget
+# cd /tmp
+# wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.5/Python-3.7.5.tgz
+# tar -xf Python-3.8.3.tgz
+# cd python-3.8.3
+# sudo make altinstall
+# sudo make install
+# echo python --version
+# echo python3 --version
+
+echo "****************************************************************"
+echo "Installing Nginx"
+echo "****************************************************************"
+sudo apt update -y
+sudo apt install -y nginx
+sudo service nginx start
+
+cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
+cat << EOF > default
+server {
+    listen        3001;
+    server_name   *.com;
+    # root /var/www/sample-api;
+    location / {
+        proxy_pass         http://localhost:5000;
+        proxy_http_version 1.1;
+        proxy_set_header   Upgrade \$http_upgrade;
+        proxy_set_header   Connection keep-alive;
+        proxy_set_header   Host \$host;
+        proxy_cache_bypass \$http_upgrade;
+        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For \$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Proto \$scheme;
+    }
+}
+EOF
+
+echo 'sites available modified'
+
+sudo nginx -s reload
+
+echo 'reload successful'
+echo "****************************************************************"
+echo "Installing Nginx compleated"
+echo "****************************************************************"
+
+
+echo "****************************************************************"
+echo '==> Extract api artifact to /var/sample-api'
+echo "****************************************************************"
+echo $ARTIFACTS_PATH
+
+mkdir $ARTIFACTS_PATH/drop
+tar -xvf $ARTIFACTS_PATH/sample-api-*.tar.gz -C $ARTIFACTS_PATH/drop/
+
+echo $ARTIFACTS_PATH
+echo "*********************artifacts copied to root**********************************"
+mkdir /var/sample-api/
+
+# tar -xvf $ARTIFACTS_PATH/drop/sample-api-* -C /var/sample-api
+
+echo "**********************copy(scp) to certain folder**************"
+# tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
+rsync -av $ARTIFACTS_PATH/drop/sample-api-* /var/sample-api/
+
+echo "*********************artifacts copied to root**********************************"
+
+echo 'RELEASE_NUMBER='$RELEASE_NUMBER >> /etc/environment
+echo 'API_BUILD_NUMBER='$API_BUILD_NUMBER >> /etc/environment
+echo 'API_PORT='$API_PORT >> /etc/environment
+source /etc/environment
+
+echo "********************Initialization finished*********************"
+
+
+echo '******Start api/script**************************'
+echo python3 --version
+python3 --version
+
+# python3 sample-api.py
+python3 /var/sample-api/sample-api-0.0.1/src/example/sample-api.py
+echo '******End api/Script ***********************************'
+
+# echo '==> Installing NPM and PM2'
+# apt-get update
+# apt install curl -y
+# curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.0/install.sh | bash
+# nvm --version
+
+# npm install -g pm2
+
+# echo '==> Start our api and configure as a daemon using pm2'
+# pm2 start /var/sample-api/sample-api-0.0.1/src/example/sample-api.py
+# pm2 save
+# chattr +i /root/.pm2/dump.pm2
+
+# echo '==> END our api and configure as a daemon using pm2'
diff --git a/applications/sample-api/sample-api.yaml b/applications/sample-api/sample-api.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bfdc316
--- /dev/null
+++ b/applications/sample-api/sample-api.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+spec_version: 1
+kind: application
+inputs:
+- PORT: 3000
+- API_PORT: 3001
+- AZURE_VM_SIZE: Basic_A1
+- AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE: t2.micro
+- RELEASE_NUMBER: none
+- API_BUILD_NUMBER: none
+
+infrastructure:
+  connectivity:
+    internal:
+    - port_info:
+        port: $PORT
+        ingress-healthcheck:                  
+            healthy-threshold: 5
+            interval: 30
+            path: /
+            status-codes: 200-299
+            timeout: 2
+            unhealthy-threshold: 2
+  compute:
+    spec:      
+      azure:
+        vm_size: $AZURE_VM_SIZE
+      aws:
+        instance_type: $AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE
+
+configuration:
+  start:
+    script: sample-api-command.sh
+  initialization:
+    script: sample-api.sh
+  healthcheck:
+    wait_for_ports: $API_PORT
+    timeout: 360
+
+source:
+  image:
+    docker_image:
+    - name: ubuntu
+      tag: 18.04
+    ami:
+      - id: ami-09e67e426f25ce0d7
+        region: us-east-1
+        username: ubuntu
+  os_type: linux
+
+debugging: 
+  connection_protocol: SSH
+ 
diff --git a/applications/wordpress/wordpress.sh b/applications/wordpress/wordpress.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94cb193
--- /dev/null
+++ b/applications/wordpress/wordpress.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Stop Script on Error
+set -e
+
+# For Debugging (print env. variables into a file)  
+printenv > /var/log/colony-vars-"$(basename "$BASH_SOURCE" .sh)".txt
+
+# Update packages and Upgrade system
+echo "****************************************************************"
+echo "Updating System"
+echo "****************************************************************"
+apt-get update -y
+
+
+echo "****************************************************************"
+echo "Installing Apache"
+echo "****************************************************************"
+apt-get install apache2 apache2-utils -y
+systemctl enable apache2
+systemctl start apache2
+
+
+echo "****************************************************************"
+echo "Installing PHP Modules"
+echo "****************************************************************"
+apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-cgi php7.0-gd -y
+
+
+
+echo "****************************************************************"
+echo "Installing Wordpress"
+echo "****************************************************************"
+wget -c http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
+tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
+rsync -av wordpress/* /var/www/html/
+chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
+chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/
+rm /var/www/html/index.html
+
+
+echo "****************************************************************"
+echo "Configuring database access"
+echo "****************************************************************"
+cd /var/www/html || exit
+mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
+
+sed -i "s/database_name_here/$DB_NAME/g" wp-config.php
+sed -i "s/username_here/$DB_USER/g" wp-config.php
+sed -i "s/password_here/$DB_PASS/g" wp-config.php
+sed -i "s/localhost/$DB_HOSTNAME/g" wp-config.php
+
+systemctl restart apache2.service
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diff --git a/applications/wordpress/wordpress.yaml b/applications/wordpress/wordpress.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87ace7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/applications/wordpress/wordpress.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+#
+#   This application file defines how to deploy and
+#   configure a Wordpress application
+#
+---
+spec_version: 1
+kind: application
+
+# These inputs are used by the initialization script to
+# configure the connectivity to the database
+# In the script we update the connectivity details which
+# are located in /var/www/html/wp-config.php
+inputs:
+  - DB_USER
+  - DB_PASS
+  - DB_NAME
+  - DB_HOSTNAME
+infrastructure:
+  # Specify the compute requirement for this app
+  # if we don't specify anything the default will be used
+  compute:
+    spec:
+      aws:
+        instance_type: t2.medium
+      azure:
+        vm_size: Basic_A2
+
+  # Port 80 will be opened externally to receive web requests
+  connectivity:
+    external:
+      - port_info:
+          port: 80
+          ingress-healthcheck:
+            healthy-threshold: 5
+            interval: 30
+            path: /wp-includes/images/blank.gif
+            status-codes: 200-299
+            timeout: 5
+            unhealthy-threshold: 2
+
+# This is a clean Ubuntu server image that will be
+# used to create a new EC2 instance in the defined AWS region
+source:
+  os_type: linux
+  image:
+    ami:
+      - id: ami-03ef731cc103c9f09
+        region: us-east-1
+        username: ubuntu
+    azure_image:
+      - urn: Canonical:UbuntuServer:16.04-LTS:latest
+        username: adminuser
+    docker_image:
+      - tag: 16.04
+        name: ubuntu
+
+configuration:
+  # The initialization script is intended to install
+  # app prerequisite and initialize the OS
+  # This script installs wordpress on a clean Ubuntu OS.
+  initialization:
+    script: wordpress.sh
+  # This command restarts the Apache server after the initialization completes
+  start:
+    command: >
+      systemctl restart apache2.service
+  # To validate the installation, we wait to see that the ports are available
+  healthcheck:
+    wait_for_ports: ALL
+    timeout: 1500
+
+debugging:
+  connection_protocol: SSH
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diff --git a/artifacts/sample-api.tar.gz b/artifacts/sample-api.tar.gz
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diff --git a/blueprints/WordPress Basic Stack(AWS).yaml b/blueprints/WordPress Basic Stack(AWS).yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..62473b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/blueprints/WordPress Basic Stack(AWS).yaml	
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+---
+spec_version: 1
+kind: blueprint
+
+metadata:
+  description: LAMP WordPress stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
+
+clouds:
+  - AWS: us-east-1
+
+# These are the blueprint parameters and their default values.
+# The values can be changed when creating a sandbox based on this
+# blueprint.
+inputs:
+  - DB_USER: root  # Used to define the db admin account
+  - DB_PASS:
+      display_style: masked
+      description: please set the root database password
+      default_value: 12345  # Used to define the db admin password
+  - DB_NAME: wordpress_demo  # DB_NAME - a target database name
+
+# These are the applications that will be deployed in this blueprint
+applications:
+  - mysql:  # One instance of mysql (see: applications/mysql/mysql.yaml)
+      input_values:
+        - DB_USER: $DB_USER
+        - DB_PASS: $DB_PASS
+        - DB_NAME: $DB_NAME
+      depends_on:
+        - mysql
+
+debugging:
+  bastion_availability: enabled-on
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diff --git a/blueprints/promotions-manager-all-aws-dev.yaml b/blueprints/promotions-manager-all-aws-dev.yaml
index 7414a33..2798c53 100644
--- a/blueprints/promotions-manager-all-aws-dev.yaml
+++ b/blueprints/promotions-manager-all-aws-dev.yaml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ metadata:
     All in one deployment of our promotions manager
     
 clouds: 
-  - AWS: eu-west-1
+  - AWS: us-east-1
   
 artifacts:
   - promotions-manager-ui: artifacts/latest/promotions-manager-ui.master.tar.gz
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ inputs:
 
 applications:
   - promotions-manager-ui:
-      #target: vm1
+      target: vm1
       #instance: 3
       input_values:
         - PORT: $PORT
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ applications:
       #  - promotions-manager-api
     
   - promotions-manager-api:      
-      #target: vm1
+      target: vm1
       input_values:
         - API_PORT: $API_PORT
         - AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE: $AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ applications:
 
         
   - mongodb:
-      #target: vm1
+      target: vm1
       input_values:
         - AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE: $AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE
               
diff --git a/blueprints/promotions-manager-all-aws-loadtest.yaml b/blueprints/promotions-manager-all-aws-loadtest.yaml
index 8a2491f..6eb39ab 100644
--- a/blueprints/promotions-manager-all-aws-loadtest.yaml
+++ b/blueprints/promotions-manager-all-aws-loadtest.yaml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ metadata:
     All in one deployment of our promotions manager
     
 clouds: 
-  - AWS: eu-west-1
+  - AWS: us-east-1
   
 artifacts:
   - promotions-manager-ui: artifacts/latest/promotions-manager-ui.master.tar.gz
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ inputs:
 
 applications:
   - promotions-manager-ui:
-      #target: vm1
-      #instances: 3
+      target: vm1
+      instances: 1
       input_values:
         - PORT: $PORT
         - AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE: $AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ applications:
       #  - promotions-manager-api
     
   - promotions-manager-api:      
-      #target: vm1
+      target: vm1
       input_values:
         - API_PORT: $API_PORT
         - AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE: $AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ applications:
 
         
   - mongodb:
-      #target: vm1
+      target: vm1
       input_values:
         - AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE: $AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE
               
diff --git a/blueprints/promotions-manager-all-aws.yaml b/blueprints/promotions-manager-all-aws.yaml
index 7414a33..ee8e5df 100644
--- a/blueprints/promotions-manager-all-aws.yaml
+++ b/blueprints/promotions-manager-all-aws.yaml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ metadata:
     All in one deployment of our promotions manager
     
 clouds: 
-  - AWS: eu-west-1
+  - AWS: us-east-1
   
 artifacts:
   - promotions-manager-ui: artifacts/latest/promotions-manager-ui.master.tar.gz
diff --git a/blueprints/sample-api-aws.yaml b/blueprints/sample-api-aws.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc7c1f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/blueprints/sample-api-aws.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+spec_version: 1
+kind: blueprint
+metadata:
+  description: >
+    sample api deployment blueprint
+    
+clouds: 
+  - AWS: us-east-1
+  
+artifacts:
+  - sample-api: artifacts/sample-api/sample-api-0.0.1.tar.gz
+  
+inputs:
+- PORT: 3000
+- API_PORT: 3001
+- AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE: t2.micro
+- RELEASE_NUMBER: none
+- API_BUILD_NUMBER: none
+
+applications:    
+  - sample-api:      
+      # target: vm1
+      instances: 1 
+      input_values:
+        - API_PORT: $API_PORT
+        - AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE: $AWS_INSTANCE_TYPE
+        - RELEASE_NUMBER: $RELEASE_NUMBER
+        - API_BUILD_NUMBER: $API_BUILD_NUMBER
+
+debugging:
+  availability: on 
+ 
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