Terraform Infrastructure Assessment: Backend ECS/Fargate Deployment Analysis

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Analyzed the Terraform configuration in TERRAFORM/backend/ to document the current infrastructure state and identify gaps.

Infrastructure Configured

Core Services (Complete)

• ECS Fargate cluster with task definitions (256 CPU/512 MB, port 3000)
• ALB with HTTPS (TLS 1.3), HTTP→HTTPS redirect, health checks on /api/health
• VPC: 2 AZs, public/private subnets, IGW, route tables
• VPC Endpoints: ECR API/DKR, S3 Gateway, CloudWatch Logs
• ACM certificate for api.studzee.in with DNS validation
• Route53 A record aliasing to ALB
• SSM Parameter Store for secrets (placeholder values)
• ECR repository with scan-on-push enabled
• Security groups: ALB (public HTTP/HTTPS) → ECS (port 3000)

Configuration

• Region: ap-south-1
• ECS desired count: 0 (awaiting initial image push)
• Provider: AWS ~> 5.0

Critical Gaps

High Priority

• ❌ NAT Gateway missing (private subnets cannot egress to internet; relying on VPC Endpoints may be insufficient)
• ❌ S3 bucket studzee-assets referenced but not defined (SSM params point to it)
• ❌ Remote state backend not configured (state is local only, no locking)

Medium Priority

• ❌ CloudWatch alarms, dashboards, monitoring
• ❌ ECS Auto Scaling policies
• ❌ ECR lifecycle policies
• ❌ MongoDB/Redis infrastructure (currently external)

Low Priority

• ❌ WAF, GuardDuty, KMS encryption
• ❌ Infrastructure for NOTIFICATION/WEBSITE/MOBILE services
• ❌ CI/CD IAM roles/OIDC provider

Notes

• Existing Route53 zone studzee.in is data source only
• SSM secrets need manual population post-apply
• .terraform.lock.hcl present, indicating prior initialization

Original prompt

I’d like you to quickly review the folder structure and let me know what Terraform infrastructure has been set up and what is still pending.

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