AWS Diagram Creator

There are so many reasons why you should accurately document your AWS cloud environments with Network Topology Diagrams. They visually portray how your network is constructed, what is running where and how resources are grouped and connected.

This is a major time saver when explaining your network to new engineers, consultants or other internal stakeholders.

The only decision you need to make is whether to manually construct diagrams based on reviewing your console configuration, or to use an automated AWS Diagram Creator to scan your AWS environments and build the diagrams for you.

The former method is often time consuming and prone to human error, whereas the latter option is fast, accurate and removes the human error factor.

Visualizing exactly what is running based on the actual resources configured in your AWS environments is probably the number one reason to use an automatedAWS Diagram Creatorover manually drawn diagrams.

The automation process discovers exactly what is running in your AWS account, so you can provide the documentation to onboard engineers faster, get to grips with new client networks or report to management in an easily understood visual format.

AWS DIAGRAM

Mapping out your AWS environment with say Visio or draw.io and using an AWS Icon template pack is a daunting prospect if your AWS environment contains more than a handful of resources.

Not only do you need to manually lay out your VPC’s, availability zones and resources which can take hours or days, once you have drawn the diagrams, you then need to keep them up to date if they are going to be of any practical use. That’s where using an automated AWS diagram creator comes into play.

AWS Infrastructure DIAGRAMS

There are several network topology diagrams that can prove useful to your DevOps, Engineering and developer teams when building applications on AWS. These include an AWS Infrastructure diagram like this: