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. 

In the world of flow charts and mind maps, Lucidchart has gained a strong following and undoubtedly has proven itself a worthy adversary to the likes of Visio, draw.io and Xmind.

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

With the availability of multiple cloud platforms each with their own strengths and cost advantages, it is not uncommon for DevOps engineers and cloud architects to take advantage of resources from multiple cloud vendors when designing a cloud based application.

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.

One of the advantages of utilising Hava for your cloud infrastructure diagramming and documentation is the availability of a robust and flexible API.