When you are working with Microsoft Azure, there is no doubt you appreciate the value and necessity of great Azure cloud architecture 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.

If you used Arcentry in the past to document your cloud infrastructure, the closure of the service earlier this year probably came as a bit of a shock.

While quite a newcomer having only been established in 2018, the decision to shut the doors at short notice potentially left a lot of people high and dry that were using the service to diagram their cloud infrastructure. 

Tags are an incredibly useful yet often overlooked feature of most cloud computing platforms. Once created they let you manage your infrastructure more effectively by providing the ability to filter resources and perform tasks and actions based on nominated tag values.

No one needs network documentation, until they do. 

The best and most perfect cloud architecture is next to useless if no one in your organisation understands it. What maybe even worse is if everyone misunderstands it, which is why we believe accurate documentation is an essential step in network architecture design and implementation.

If you have worked with AWS for any length of time, you will understand the importance of using effective AWS diagram tools.

We've put together what we believe is the most comprehensive glossary of cloud computing terminology available. 

If you have been working with AWS cloud infrastructure for any length of time, you will probably used or at least heard of Cloudcraft. 

Hava cloud infrastructure diagrams now have more flexibility and control so you can adjust the layout canvas to better suit your requirements.

This post has been superseded - Hava's 2023 UI is significantly different.

We're happy to announce general availability of the new hava.io user interface. The result of many many hours of performance tweaks and design improvements this implementation of the cleaner UI has delivered improved navigation, more screen area for your diagrams so you can focus on the things that matter to you.