AWS Diagram Architecture

When you work with AWS cloud architecture, you almost certainly understand the importance of documenting your AWS VPCs and container clusters using network architecture diagrams.

Should you experience an unexpected change in network or application behaviour, like a drop in speed or application errors due to unavailable resources, you need to find out what happened fast. Having up to date AWS diagram architecture always on hand coupled with the availability of historical versions of your network topology greatly assists in diagnosing exactly what has changed so you can quickly resolve the problem.

Accurate diagrams are probably the fastest way to quickly identify what your network should look like in the middle of an outage. Trying to establish changes using log files across multiple services and applications can be a time consuming process. If a resource is inadvertently deleted or an AWS outage takes essential resources offline, comparing live and historical snapshots of your network will quickly surface what is missing visually.

Not only do accurate automatically generated AWS network architecture diagrams visually represent the construction of your AWS network, they can greatly assist in speeding up the on-boarding of new team members and external consultants.

If you have been working with AWS for any length of time, you probably already understand the value a good AWS diagram architecture provides. The reason so many engineers or developers don’t maintain accurate network diagrams is the time it takes to manually construct VPC diagrams. Swapping back and forth between your manual diagram software to your console settings is a tedious task that takes up precious time that could be put to better use. For a developer or ops engineer, there’s always something more important to do.

If you have a complex network or multiple applications and environments, it can take days or even weeks to research and map out your VPCs. When you have done all the hard work mapping out your AWS resources onto your AWS diagram architecture, you then need to spend even more time keeping the diagrams up to date.

When you take on existing AWS infrastructure as part of project, or need to deploy infrastructure for a new application or maybe while on-boarding a new client network…