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 * [API browser](https://communitiesuk.github.io/submit-social-housing-lettings-and-sales-data/api) (using this [OpenAPI specification](docs/api/v1.json))
 * [Design history](https://core-design-history.herokuapp.com)
 
-## System architecture
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-![View of system architecture](docs/images/architecture.drawio.png)
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 ## User interface
 
 ![View of the logs list](docs/images/service.png)
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 ADD (Analytics & Data Directorate) statisticians are the other primary users of the service. The data collected is transferred to DLUHCs consolidated data store (CDS) via nightly XML exports to an S3 bucket. CDS ingests and transforms this data, ultimately storing it in a MS SQL database and exposing it to analysts and statisticians via Amazon Workspaces.
 
-![Diagram of the CORE system architecture](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/communitiesuk/submit-social-housing-lettings-and-sales-data/main/docs/images/architecture.drawio.png)
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 ## Users
 
 External data providing organisations have 2 main user types: