If you are building or supporting cloud infrastructure built on AWS, GCP or Azure it is now extremely simple to get a live graphical snapshot of your cloud network topology.

AWS Organisations is a free service that allows you to programmatically add and remove AWS accounts and group together AWS accounts into organisational units.

When you are building on AWS or working with applications built on AWS as a development or operations engineer you already appreciate the value of a well laid out network topology diagram that accurately represents what resources you have configured in your AWS accounts.

AWS Virtual Private Cloud instances  (VPC’s) allow you to run workloads and store data in the cloud.

A VPC peering connection is a networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between the two VPCs using private IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. Instances in either VPC can communicate with each other as if they are within the same network. You can create a VPC peering connection between your own VPCs, or with a VPC in another AWS account. The VPCs can be in different AWS regions which is also known as an inter-region VPC peering connection.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) allows you to safely store, retrieve and secure your files on the AWS ecosystem. Storage is segmented into repositories much like a traditional folder that are referred to as buckets.

If you have been working with AWS VPCs for any length of time, you understand the importance of documenting your AWS VPCs using cloud architecture diagrams. Not only do they visually represent the construction of your AWS network, they also speed up the on-boarding of new team members and external consultants the also help you to quickly identify what the network should look like in the middle of an outage.

After a well earned break, our talented developers have been busy putting the finishing touches to a number of new features and enhancements to make your Hava diagrams more detailed and flexible.

AWS cloud WAN allows you to connect your on premise networks at your company locations, data centers and AWS VPCs together using the AWS global network backbone without having to use the internet.

When your mind turns to cloud network diagrams often Microsoft Visio will be the first thing that springs to mind. That's not surprising, given the popularity of this accomplished desktop flow chart/drawing application.