AWS Infrastructure Diagram

There are many reasons why you would want to accurately diagram and document your AWS environments. Knowing exactly what is running based on the actual resources configured in your AWS environments is probably the number one reason to use automated AWS Infrastructure Diagram software over manually drawn diagrams.

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

AWS Infrastructure Diagram Generator

Sitting down with Visio and your AWS Icon template pack is a daunting prospect if your AWS environment contains more than a handful of VPC’s, EC2 instances or a load balancer or two.

Not only do you need to manually lay out your VPC’s and resources which can take hours or even 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 automated AWS diagram software comes into play.

AWS Architecture Diagrams

There are a number of network topology diagrams that can prove useful to your engineering and DevOps team. These include an AWS Infrastructure diagram like this: