I’m currently in the process of designing out the architecture for a project which is soon to be hosted on AWS. My aim has been to isolate groups of components (like Redis and/or Postgres instances) from other groups (like web application servers) as much as possible to restrict access. AWS provides VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) to do such a thing, but it’s quite fiddly to get going. This is where Terraform steps in. Terraform is a tool that allows you to automate your interactions with ser...
