diff --git a/infrastructure/terraform/main.tf b/infrastructure/terraform/main.tf
index d47d64fe..9422fdfb 100644
--- a/infrastructure/terraform/main.tf
+++ b/infrastructure/terraform/main.tf
@@ -71,4 +71,8 @@ resource "aws_db_instance" "default" {
   lifecycle {
     prevent_destroy = true
   }
+  # For the moment, we make the database publically accessible so that we can connect to it from the frontend.
+  # We will look to change this in the future but as we are pre-MVP at the time of setting this, we don't
+  # have major security demand and don't want to set this up now
+  publicly_accessible = true
 }