Harnessing the Power of CMDB in Cloud Computing: The Importance of Cloud Diagrams

In the modern cloud computing landscape, teams need the ability to change architecture fast. When you adopt a CI/CD or dynamic approach to application development and deployment, the pace of change can mean your cloud architecture is a constantly moving target.

If you are subject to ISO PCI SOC or other audits that look into the security, and location of your cloud infrastructure that contains your customer data then you already know the challenges.

As cloud technology advances, engineers are tasked with managing increasingly complex infrastructure. One of the most time-consuming tasks is creating and updating infrastructure diagrams.

As a cloud network architect you’ll often find yourself redesigning and maintaining existing network infrastructure for applications, with the aim of making them faster and more highly available. Infrastructure diagrams play a critical role in this process by providing a visual representation of the network architecture, which is essential for communication, troubleshooting, and planning. 

There comes a point in every cloud project where a redesign of the infrastructure is required. It might be for performance reasons, to make the environment more resilient and highly available, or it might be to take advantage of new resources or methodologies that will improve your application's performance and make it easier to maintain.

In this post you are going to learn exactly how you can examine what you have running in your cloud accounts without having to spend hours or days trawling through your cloud consoles trying to establish how exactly does this thing hang together.