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Terra Towns

A visual explanation of the Terra Towns project's cloud architecture.

This diagram explains the cloud architecture for the Terra Towns project.

Terra Towns cloud architecture
Figure 1: Terra Towns architecture — CloudFront, S3, and Terraform Cloud. Click to view full size.

Architectural Overview

The Terra Towns architecture is designed for simplicity and scalability, using a combination of AWS services and Terraform for infrastructure management.

  • Content Delivery: Amazon CloudFront is used as the content delivery network (CDN). It caches the website content at locations around the world, ensuring that users have fast access no matter where they are.
  • Website Hosting: The website itself is a static site hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket. This is a reliable and cost-effective way to host websites that don't require a traditional server.
  • Infrastructure as Code: The entire cloud infrastructure is defined and managed using Terraform. This allows for automated, repeatable, and version-controlled infrastructure deployments.

Why This Architecture?

This design was chosen for its efficiency and reliability:

  • High Availability: Both S3 and CloudFront are highly available services, ensuring the website is always accessible.
  • Global Scale: CloudFront provides a global network, which means the platform can scale to serve a worldwide audience with low latency.
  • Automated Management: Using Terraform for infrastructure as code means that the entire environment can be created, updated, or replicated automatically, reducing manual effort and potential errors.
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