Terraform with AWS

This mini-project brings together the Terraform skills you have already learned and applies them to a realistic AWS build. Instead of creating one isolated resource at a time, you will assemble a small but complete environment: a custom VPC for networking, an EC2 instance that runs a web server, and an S3 bucket that stores static assets.

The goal is not just to “make AWS resources appear.” It is to understand how infrastructure components fit together. Your VPC defines the network boundary, subnets decide where resources live, routing controls internet access, the EC2 instance serves your application, and S3 gives you durable object storage for images, CSS, JavaScript, or downloadable files.

You will build the project in three focused lessons:

• AWS VPC Setup, create the network foundation with public and private subnets, route tables, an internet gateway, and a NAT gateway.
• EC2 Web Server, launch a web server inside the VPC, secure it with a security group, and give it a stable public IP.
• S3 Static Assets, create a static asset bucket with versioning, lifecycle rules, and object uploads.

Treat this as a hands-on lab. By the end, you will have a working AWS environment that demonstrates how Terraform turns cloud architecture into repeatable, reviewable code. That is the real win: once it works, you can recreate the same environment reliably anywhere.