If you are using AWS to build solutions that consist of more than a handful of resources you will appreciate the need for accurate network documentation. By far, the best form of documentation to be able to easily communicate how your AWS network is constructed is a network topology diagram.

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.

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.

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.

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

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