If you have worked with Microsoft Azure for any length of time, you no doubt appreciate the value and necessity of great network topology diagrams. Diagrams provide a visual cue for better communication and understanding of your cloud infrastructure at all levels of your organisation, from management down to freshly onboarded engineers and consultants.

Along side the hundreds of AWS resources we recently detailed in this AWS Services List, Amazon also provides a stack of developer and DevOps tools to help you build, deploy, manage and monitor applications on the AWS cloud.

This is a list of a few of our favourite AWS Developer Tools. 

AWS Developer Tools

Defining Your Organisation

Google Cloud recommend your network resources should be organized hierarchically to enable you to manage access control and permissions across your organization. Grouping together all the network resources that each team or project requires makes it easier to permit or deny access according to which business unit each team member belongs.

Security is possibly the most important consideration for any organization storing data or hosting applications on public cloud infrastructure.

When you are working with AWS VPC infrastructure, there are many many reasons why you can benefit from accurate automatically generated infrastructure diagrams.

S3 Optimization

Some organisations struggle to contain their S3 Storage costs through a combination of failures around planning and monitoring. This could be due to the complete absence or incomplete application of both important steps.

When you are responsible for the delivery and maintenance of critical or complex applications built on cloud infrastructure, the chances are you are relying on multiple in house engineers or teams of engineers, devops and external consultants to keep your network and applications operating at peak performance for your end users.

Software development can be a long and complex process. The more you can map out and plan, the greater chance you have of success.