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+# mr-vercetti/tf-aws-demo
+Simple demo of using Terraform in an AWS environment created for learning purposes.
+
+## Used AWS services
+* [VPC](https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/)
+* [EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/)
+* [Application Load Balancer](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/application-load-balancer/)
+
+## Operation
+This terraform configuration creates VPC and public and private networks with Internet access via IGW and NAT Gateway. A bastion host is created in one of the public networks, from which we can access an autoscaling group of EC2 instances located in the private network. The group hosts a simple web application and scales according to CPU usage. In front of the application is an ALB that directs traffic appropriately.
+
+## Prerequirements
+* EC2 key pair created
+* Completed terraform.tfvars file
+
+## Future work
+* Move state to S3 bucket and create state locking via DynamoDB
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