The Increasing adoption of cloud based infrastructure by businesses large and small is a testament to the benefits of moving from on premise hardware to infrastructure as a service or the cloud as it more commonly referred.

The evolution of application software development over the last 15 years has given rise to new methodologies in the cloud computing space that were rarely seen when development was purely an in-house activity.

Accurate AWS deployment diagrams can play a significant role in monitoring and internally communicating the design of well engineered AWS infrastructure.

Auto-scaling is the capability built into AWS that allows you to ensure you have the right number of EC2 instances provisioned to handle the load of your application. Using Auto-scaling, you can remove the guess work in selecting how many EC2 instances are required to provide an acceptable level of performance for your application without over-provisioning resources and incurring unnecessary costs.

Accurate AWS network topology diagrams play a major part in monitoring and internally communicating the design of well engineered AWS infrastructure.

AWS STS is an AWS service that allows you to request temporary security credentials for your AWS resources, for IAM authenticated users and users that are authenticated in AWS such as federated users via OpenID or SAML2.0.

Google Cloud visualization especially in diagram form is an important approach for monitoring well managed and easily communicated GCP network infrastructure.

Hava is an application that analyses your cloud configuration and maps out the discovered networks and resources when connected to your AWS, Azure or GCP accounts.

If you are using AWS to build solutions that consist of more than a handful of resources you will appreciate the need for accurate AWS VPC Diagrams. The best form of documentation to be able to easily communicate how your AWS network is constructed is a network topology diagram.

AWS Trusted Advisor is a service that inspects all the resources present in your AWS account and suggests improvements to bring them in line with AWS best practices.