How a Simple Diagram Helps Enhance Cloud Security

I was glancing through some customer feedback today and came across this :

“For me, as a AWS senior cloud-advisor HAVA is theee tool. I was really surprised what can be done with it and in particular how security groups are visualized is stunning. It’s so easy. With HAVA it is possible to find the link between ENIs and Instances right away. Do this in the AWS Console. It’s a remarkable tool and I try to convince my customers to use it. In particular bigger companies loose sight. In case security compliance is on top of the list, there is no way to do it without visualizing what you got in front of you” — Peter B.

Peter gets it.

Hava is often considered an infrastructure diagramming tool with the automation of cloud infrastructure diagrams for AWS, Azure and GCP as the core primary function.

Which to some extent it is, however the other views and capabilities built into Hava deliver so many more advantages to cloud engineers and managed service providers than just pretty VPC infrastructure pictures.

Peter’s observations around security group visualisation is a case in point. What could potentially take you days or weeks to work out in the cloud console is all laid out in crystal clear diagram form on the interactive security view for AWS and Azure deployments.