Cloud Architect Tutor — Basic Edition

Free. Open Source. Educational.

Stop staring at blank Terraform files. Answer a few questions about what you're building and your expected scale — and receive production‑grade, modular Terraform code for 14 AWS architectures, from a single EC2 instance to multi‑region EKS serving 1M+ users.

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What This Does

• Asks what you're building and your expected scale
• Teaches architectural tradeoffs before generating any code
• Generates modular, deployable Terraform for an EC2 instance
• Includes security groups, IAM roles, CloudWatch logging, and optional Prometheus + Grafana monitoring
• Logs your learning journey so you can track progress

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What You Need

• Terraform 1.6 or later
• AWS account with credentials configured (aws configure)
• An existing EC2 key pair
• A VPC and subnet in your AWS account

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Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/BuildMintZ/cloud-architect-tutor.git
cd cloud-architect-tutor
chmod +x cloud-architect-tutor.sh
bash cloud-architect-tutor.sh

Answer the prompts. Your Terraform configuration will be generated in infrastructure/terraform/.

What Gets Generated
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infrastructure/terraform/your-project-webapp_micro/
├── main.tf                  # EC2 instance, IAM, security groups
├── variables.tf             # Typed input variables
├── user_data.sh             # Bootstrap script (Docker, optional monitoring)
└── modules/
    ├── ec2-instance/        # Reusable EC2 module
    └── security-groups/     # Reusable security group module
This Is the Basic (Free) Edition
This version focuses on EC2 generation — the foundation of cloud infrastructure. It showcases the educational logic and code quality of the full product.

🚀 Want KMS encryption, WAF, CI/CD pipelines, and production modules?
👉 Get the Pro version: https://www.usefreelanceflow.com/cloud-architect-tutor.html

Full Version Capabilities
Cloud Architect Tutor v7.0 generates 14 production scenarios across all scales:

Scale	Architecture
1k users	Single EC2
10k users	Auto-Scaling Group + RDS
100k users	EKS + WAF + Multi-AZ
1M+ users	Multi-Region EKS + Global DB
What the full version adds:

🏗️ VPC, subnets, NAT gateways, flow logs

⚙️ ECS Fargate & EKS with managed node groups

🗄️ RDS PostgreSQL, Aurora, ElastiCache

🔒 KMS encryption, WAFv2, IAM least privilege

📊 CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, SNS

🚀 CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions)

📚 ADR documentation, deployment guides, cheatsheets

🎓 Built‑in lessons at every decision point

With the Pro version you can Generate modular deployable Terraform for any of the architectures below:

- Single EC2 (1‑1k users)

- Monitored EC2 (1k‑5k)

- Auto‑Scaling Group + RDS (5k‑10k)

- ECS Fargate + Aurora (10k‑50k)

- EKS + Multi‑AZ (50k‑100k)

- Multi‑region EKS + Global DB (100k‑1M)

- Microservices (ECS Service Mesh, EKS + Istio)

- Data Pipelines (EC2+SQS+RDS / Kinesis+EMR+S3)

- IoT Backend (Kinesis+Lambda+DynamoDB / Multi‑region ingestion)

- Includes security groups, IAM roles, CloudWatch logging, optional Prometheus+Grafana

- Logs your learning journey across sessions

The Basic Edition is a complete, functional learning tool — you can build real infrastructure from 1 user to 1M+.
The Pro version adds enterprise‑grade hardening, automation, and documentation.


Watch the Demo for the Basic version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dLl5u2vPII

Click the image to see the script in action — from running the script to terraform plan (intentionally fails to prove the code is real).

License
MIT — Free to use, modify, and share.

Built by BuildMintZ — Infrastructure that ships revenue.
https://www.usefreelanceflow.com/

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