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Managing AWS costs doesn’t need to be daunting. Here's some ways to save on AWS cloud costs and embrace a more cost-effective cloud strategy. By optimizing performance and tapping into various AWS cost-saving features, this guide provides a tangible blueprint for reducing expenses.
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As businesses continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to regularly assess and optimize your cloud architecture. One way to do this is through visualization, which can reveal unused resources and help you make informed decisions about your cloud design.
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The Benefits of Great Cloud Architecture Documentation
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Maximizing Efficiency: The Benefits of Cloud Architecture Documentation
Why is cloud architecture documentation a linchpin for successful cloud operations? Effortlessly navigate through your cloud environment, maintain stringent compliance, make cost-effective choices, and streamline resource management with detailed and up-to-date documentation. Each section of this article zeroes in on the benefits of cloud architecture documentation for AWS, Azure and GCP, explaining how these foundational benefits translate into practical advantages for your business.
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Creating Custom Connections in Hava
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Learn How Hava.io Resolves Key Observability Challenges for its Users
Managing complex cloud environments has become a significant challenge for IT professionals. From sprawling cloud architecture to stringent security requirements and budget constraints, the hurdles are many. Hava.io is a revolutionary tool designed to transform how organizations visualize, manage, and optimize their AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud architecture. This blog post delves into the major challenges Hava.io addresses, offering practical hands free clarity and control for cloud management teams.
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Microsoft Azure Diagram Generator
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When you are working with any cloud computing virtual infrastructure, there are many benefits to creating and maintaining accurate Azure Architecture diagram sets.
You can immediately communicate the network design to both technical engineering staff and also management where necessary. If you are onboarding new engineers, or engaging external consultants, you can bring them up to speed very quickly with a well laid out infrastructure diagram.
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There are numerous reasons why you would want to accurately diagram and document your AWS environments. Knowing exactly what is running based on the actual resources configured in your cloud environments is probably the number one reason to use an automated Cloud Architecture Diagram Tool over manually drawing your network topology diagrams.
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Best AWS Diagramming Tool
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The best AWS diagram generator is certainly a subjective topic. Depending on how your cloud infrastructure is built, what technologies and automation pipeline you are using will definitely influence your view.
In terms of typical VPC deployment and the resources and services used to build modern cloud based applications, we believe the approach and layout generated by Hava when you connect it to your AWS accounts is a worthy contender for the best AWS diagram tool available, especially if automation and accuracy are important to you.
There are many reasons why you would want to accurately diagram and document your AWS environments. Knowing exactly what is running based on the actual resources configured in your AWS environments is probably the number one reason to use automated AWS Network Diagram Tool software over manually drawn diagrams.
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AWS Infrastructure Diagram using Hava
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There are many reasons why you would want to accurately diagram and document your AWS environments. Knowing exactly what is running based on the actual resources configured in your environments is probably the number one reason to use automated AWS Infrastructure Diagram software over manually drawn diagrams.
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AWS Diagram Software
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There are countless reasons why you would want to accurately document your AWS environments. Knowing exactly what is running based on the actual resources configured in your AWS environments is probably the number one reason to use automated AWS Diagram Software over manually drawn diagrams.
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AWS Infrastructure Diagram Generator
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When you are building cloud based applications and networks on AWS, there are many compelling reasons why you would want to accurately diagram and document your AWS infrastructure. Knowing exactly what is running based on the actual resources configured in your AWS environments is probably the number one reason to use an automated AWS infrastructure diagram generator over manually drawing diagrams yourself using a drag and drop process.
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Generate Network Diagrams From AWS Using Hava
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When you or your team are building applications on AWS you will reach a point where you need to ensure what you intended to build has been executed according to the design brief. Whether you are a cloud enterprise architect, program manager, infrastructure or security architect, cloud operations engineer, application architect, DevOps or an application developer, at every step of the application development and deployment lifecycle, you need to know exactly what has been build and what is running.
There are lots of reasons why you should accurately diagram and document your AWS environments. Knowing exactly what is running based on the actual resources configured in your AWS environments is probably the number one reason to generate network diagrams from AWS.
Once you have a clear line of sight on your network topology, you can instantly assess whether the network is running as intended.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation security visualization vpc diagrams
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AWS Diagram | Automating Cloud Documentation with Hava
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There are numerous reasons why you would want to accurately document your AWS cloud environments with an AWS Diagram.
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AWS Diagram Creator
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This is a major time saver when explaining your network to new engineers, consultants or other internal stakeholders.
Topics: aws cloud Consulting Documentation security vpc diagrams
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AWS Architecture Diagram Tool from Hava
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Topics: aws cloud Documentation security visualization vpc diagrams
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Adding Notes to Hava Cloud Architecture Diagrams
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Team Hava are thrilled to announce a much requested feature has been beta released.
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Topics: aws azure gcp
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Amazon AWS Cloud Map vs Hava Cloud Mapping
By Team Hava on February 15, 2024
When you want to map out your AWS cloud architecture you might go searching for things like AWS topology map, AWS architecture diagram, or AWS cloud map.
While AWS topology map and architecture diagram suggests you are looking for the type of diagram Hava will auto generate for you to show you all your running AWS resources, AWS Cloud Map is a very different thing which can get easily confused as a diagramming tool.
What are the differences between AWS Cloud Map and Hava cloud architecture mapping?
AWS Cloud Map: Simplifying Service Discovery in the Cloud
AWS Cloud Map is a fully managed service that simplifies the process of service discovery within your cloud infrastructure. Whether you’re dealing with microservices, containers, or other dynamic resources, AWS Cloud Map provides an elegant solution for locating and managing these services.
What Is AWS Cloud Map?
At its core, AWS Cloud Map allows you to create and maintain a map of backend services and resources that your applications depend on. Let’s break down its key features:
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Namespaces: You start by creating a namespace, which acts as a friendly identifier for your resources. Think of it as a label that helps you organize and locate services. A namespace can represent an entire application or a specific set of related services.
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Services: Within a namespace, you define services. Each service corresponds to a type of resource (e.g., web servers, database servers, APIs). Services act as templates, providing the necessary information for locating endpoints associated with those resources.
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Resource Registration: When your application adds a new resource (such as spinning up a new container or launching an EC2 instance), it registers that resource with AWS Cloud Map. This registration includes details on how to locate the resource, whether through DNS queries or API calls.
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Dynamic Updates: As resources come and go (due to scaling, updates, or failures), AWS Cloud Map dynamically updates its map. This ensures that your application always has an accurate view of available services.
How Does AWS Cloud Map Work?
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Namespace Creation: You create a namespace, specifying the name you want to use for locating resources. Additionally, you choose the method of resource location:
- DNS Queries in a VPC: If you prefer DNS-based discovery within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
- Public DNS Queries: For resources accessible over the internet.
- AWS Cloud Map DiscoverInstances API Calls: For programmatic discovery.
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Service Definition: For each resource type (e.g., web servers, databases), you create a service. This service template includes information about the DNS records to use for locating instances. You can also configure health checks to ensure only healthy instances are returned.
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Resource Registration: When a new resource comes online, your application calls the RegisterInstance API. This creates a service instance, containing details on how to locate the resource.
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Service Discovery: When your application needs to connect to a resource, it calls the DiscoverInstances API, specifying the namespace and service. AWS Cloud Map returns information on how to locate one or more healthy instances.
Use Cases for AWS Cloud Map
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Microservices Architecture: In a microservices environment, services come and go dynamically. AWS Cloud Map ensures that each microservice registers itself and provides an up-to-date view of available services.
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Container Orchestration: When using Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS, AWS Cloud Map integrates seamlessly. As containers spin up or down, they automatically register and deregister with the service map.
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Multi-Region Deployments: For applications deployed across multiple regions, AWS Cloud Map simplifies cross-region service discovery.
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Custom DNS Names: You can define custom DNS names for your services, making them easier to remember and reference.
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Filtering with Attributes: Specify attribute values for service instances (e.g., deployment stage, environment). Clients can use these attributes to filter resources.
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Hybrid Architectures: AWS Cloud Map works not only with AWS resources but also with on-premises resources, providing a unified service discovery experience.
AWS Cloud Map is a powerful tool for managing service discovery in dynamic cloud environments. By creating a clear map of your backend services, you simplify resource location and enhance the reliability of your applications. Whether you’re building microservices, deploying containers, or orchestrating complex architectures, AWS Cloud Map is a valuable addition to your toolkit.
What is Hava?
Hava.io is an automated cloud diagramming tool designed to simplify the discovery and documentation of cloud environments.
Here are the key points about Hava:
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Automated Cloud Diagrams: Hava generates interactive cloud diagrams within minutes from multiple cloud vendors (such as AWS, Azure, and GCP). These diagrams map out your cloud architecture, providing a visual representation of your infrastructure, security layers, and containers.
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Multiple Vendor Support: Connect your cloud accounts (AWS, GCP, and Azure) to Hava. It imports your environments and creates logically laid-out diagrams grouped by VPCs or resource zones. You can easily spot anomalies, review cost forecasts, and export diagrams for management, audit, and compliance purposes.
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Resource Details: Selecting each resource on the diagram reveals attributes like security groups, connections, subnets, and ingress/egress IPs. This helps you quickly identify vulnerabilities and understand resource configurations.
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Versioning and Change Tracking: Hava continuously polls your cloud configuration. When changes occur, diagrams are updated, and previous versions are archived. You can compare and view historical environment configurations.
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Efficiency and Integration: Hava streamlines operations with rapid onboarding, real-time visualization, and fast vulnerability identification. It also offers an API for integration into your build pipeline.
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Embed Diagrams Anywhere: Hava provides an embeddable diagram viewer, allowing you to place diagrams externally via an iFrame code snippet without requiring login. There are also native integrations with Confluence, Github and a fully featured API and CLI allowing you to programatically control the addition, generation and updating of your cloud architecture diagrams.
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Architecture Change Alerts: When changes are detected, you can configure Hava alerts to send an email to specified recipients which describes the change and provides a revision comparison diagram. Different environments can have different recipients so they know the minute something changes in the architecture they are responsible for.
You can learn more about Hava, how it works and what diagrams are produced here:
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Topics: aws azure gcp self-hosted
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Topics: aws azure gcp
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Automated AWS Diagram Generation: Simplify Your Cloud Diagrams
By Team Hava on January 4, 2024
Are you tired of manually creating AWS architecture diagrams? Look no further than hava.io! Our platform generates interactive cloud diagrams in minutes from multiple cloud vendors, including AWS.
The Advantages of Using hava.io for Automated AWS Diagram Generation
With hava.io, you can explore, monitor, and track changes in your cloud infrastructure. Ditch your drawing tools and let hava.io do the heavy lifting for you.
Here are some of the advantages of using hava.io for automated AWS diagram generation:
Ease of Use
Simply create a read-only cross-account role and use those credentials to connect your AWS account to hava.io. It then pulls back the resources and relationships between them, building a complete visualization of your environment in several diagram views.
Infrastructure View - a fully interactive diagram showing you the running resources in a vpc, subnet and availability zone details, connections and all the known metadata related to a selected resource instance.
Security View: Shows you all the configured security groups and what those groups control. The overlaid arrows represent the open ports, ingress and egress points and what protocols are in play.
List View: Shows you a detailed list of all the discovered resources and components found when Hava scanned your AWS account(s). This will include items that are not visualized on your infrastructure diagrams (like network interface cards or storage volumes) that would clutter up the diagram and make it unreadable.
Up-to-Date Diagrams
Hava continuously syncs all your diagrams, so an up-to-date diagram set is always at hand. You can also trigger an update by integrating Hava right into your CI/CD pipeline.
Versioning
Hava retains a version history of your changes detected in your environments. Older versions can be opened, inspected interactively and even exported for external archiving.
Diff View
Visualize what changed between two points in time, what was added and what was taken away. Invaluable if you are trying to track down the cause of an outage or unexpected application errors.
Additional Reporting
Hava includes an AWS compliance report based on the AWS trusted advisor methodology. Reports include an account summary as well as highlighting configuration issues and suggestions.
Architectural Monitoring
Hava can tell you when it detects an unexpected change. An alert is sent to everyone you nominate with a diff diagram showing you the changes that triggered the alert.
Never miss another change again (unintentional or otherwise)
By using hava.io for automated AWS diagram generation, you can save time and effort while ensuring that your diagrams are always up-to-date and accurate. You can sign up with AWS Marketplace today to get started, which integrates into your AWS bill without having to create a new vendor and jump through the usual admin hoops and red tape we all know and love. You can also sign up via our website here: Hava pricing and sign up page
Conclusion
In conclusion, hava.io is a powerful tool that simplifies the process of creating AWS architecture diagrams. With its ease of use, up-to-date diagrams, versioning, diff view, additional reporting, and architectural monitoring, hava.io is the perfect solution for anyone looking to streamline their AWS cloud infrastructure documentation.
To learn more, click the button below.
P.S. Hava also supports Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
Thanks for reading
Team Hava 😊
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IT Maintenance opportunities in December
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Subscribe to Hava on Amazon AWS Marketplace
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By Team Hava on August 23, 2023
When you are building cloud solutions on AWS, taking on new client networks or inheriting a project, having up to date documentation is massive advantage.
What used to be a manual labour intensive task can now be achieved in minutes by connecting your AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes Clusters to hava.io and letting Hava auto generate your architecture topology diagrams for you.
You no longer have to do it yourself, or waste other team member's time trawling through consoles or engage consultants to produce accurate perpetually up to date cloud architecture, container and security posture diagrams.
You can always have the diagrams you need on hand when you need them when you leverage Hava's AWS Diagram Generator.
Generate AWS Diagrams on autopilot using Hava and free yourself from drag and drop forever.
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This is the challenge faced by MSPs and professional services organisations across the globe on a daily basis.
However, the advanced deep search tool built into Hava can dramatically simplify this process.
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By Team Hava on March 13, 2023
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.
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes DevOps
7 min read
9 Reasons Why Cloud Network Architects Should Use Diagram Automation
By Team Hava on March 8, 2023
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.
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes msp architect
7 min read
How to fast-track cloud network architecture redesign
By Team Hava on February 28, 2023
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.
Topics: aws azure gcp
6 min read
Interactive Wiki Cloud Architecture Diagrams
By Team Hava on February 21, 2023
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes DevOps devsecops
2 min read
Self-hosted V2.1.585 is now Generally Available
By Team Hava on February 15, 2023
Topics: self-hosted
7 min read
Viewing Cloud Architecture Without Trawling Vendor Consoles
By Team Hava on February 14, 2023
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.
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes DevOps
11 min read
Streamline Architecture Management with Automated Cloud Diagrams
By Team Hava on February 7, 2023
As a cloud engineer, you understand the complexities and challenges of managing and monitoring cloud environments. The ever-evolving nature of cloud infrastructure requires frequent updates, changes, and modifications which comes with plenty of challenges.
Topics: aws azure gcp diagrams kubernetes
4 min read
Cloud Architecture Diagrams for Teams
By Team Hava on February 2, 2023
When you are building complex applications with lots of moving parts and hosting them in the cloud, it can be easy to loose sight of exactly what is happening. Explaining how the latest micro service integrates with the existing infrastructure to the rest of the team or how the whole thing hangs together when onboarding new engineers can be difficult and time consuming. (read expensive)
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes
6 min read
Cloud Network Security Diagrams by Hava
By Team Hava on January 30, 2023
Cloud network security diagrams are a visual representation of an organization's cloud infrastructure that provides an overview of the security and data protection measures in place. In today's digital age, where cloud computing has become the norm for many organizations, it is crucial to have a secure and protected cloud environment.
Topics: aws azure gcp
9 min read
How to Reduce Cloud Computing Costs in 2023
By Team Hava on January 24, 2023
If you are responsible for cloud infrastructure there is every chance the importance of containing or reducing cloud costs this year will become a focus of your organisation.
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes costs
7 min read
CTO Tools: Why care about Hava?
By Team Hava on January 17, 2023
A CTO needs a clear line of sight to the networks and network resources they are responsible for, especially if they that infrastructure is cloud based.
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes cto
4 min read
A Hava year in review 2022
By Team Hava on January 16, 2023
2022 was a big year for Hava, several key appointments saw the team almost double in size. We have spent a lot of time thinking about how people use Hava and how Hava can help make cloud practitioner's day to day work lives easier. We use Hava internally ourselves to document and monitor Hava so we understand how it makes our lives easier too!
Topics: news retrospective
6 min read
Best Cloud Diagramming Software 2024
By Team Hava on January 12, 2023
Who is creating your cloud infrastructure diagrams in 2024?
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes DevOps
4 min read
The Power of Automated Cloud Diagrams: Boost Productivity & Save Time
By Team Hava on January 10, 2023
It is important for businesses and their engineering staff to have a good understanding of how their cloud infrastructure works and how it hangs together. One way to help with this understanding is to create diagrams that illustrate the various components and how they fit together. In this article, we will discuss the benefits of automating the creation of your cloud computing diagrams.
Topics: aws azure gcp
7 min read
Diagrams for Cloud Architecture Security
By Team Hava on December 21, 2022
Cloud security is a critical concern for organizations that rely on cloud-based infrastructure and services to store, process, and transmit sensitive data. One key aspect of maintaining effective cloud security is regularly conducting security audits to identify and address potential vulnerabilities and risks.
Topics: aws security
3 min read
What is Amazon AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
By Team Hava on December 19, 2022
In these days of rising business and energy costs we can ultimately expect to see the burden on AWS data centers passed on to customers sooner or later. So keeping on top of your AWS cloud spend has never been more important.
Topics: aws
5 min read
3 min read
Displaying Network Connections with Hava.io
By Team Hava on December 7, 2022
When you connect a cloud account to Hava, you will end up with a set of diagrams for every VPC or virtual network discovered.
Topics: aws azure gcp
3 min read
What is Amazon AWS Reachability Analyzer?
By Team Hava on December 6, 2022
AWS Reachability Analyzer is a tool that allows users to test the reachability of their Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources from different locations. This is useful for ensuring that the resources are accessible from the locations where they are needed, and for identifying potential connectivity issues that may affect the performance of the services.
Topics: aws
3 min read
Hava Self Hosted (V2.1.522) is Generally Available
By Team Hava on December 6, 2022
Team Hava is pleased to announce that version 2.1.522 containing a significant number of new features as well as security and performance enhancements is now generally available.
5 min read
Find Cloud Assets From Multiple Accounts/Vendors With a Single Query
By Team Hava on December 1, 2022
When you are managing multiple cloud based networks the chances are there are multiple cloud accounts to look after and these may well be from different vendors.
Topics: aws azure gcp cloudcomputing
8 min read
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials | Security
By Team Hava on November 29, 2022
AWS are always quick to point out what they refer to as the shared responsibility security model.
Topics: aws
9 min read
Amazon AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials - Storage and Databases
By Team Hava on November 22, 2022
Topics: aws database
6 min read
Cloud Computing System Architecture Diagram
By Team Hava on November 17, 2022
Why automate cloud computing System Architecture Diagrams?
5 min read
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials | Networking
By Team Hava on November 15, 2022
Networking is at the core of just about everything in the cloud. Some elements of your compute infrastructure need to be publicly accessible, while others like databases or transactional applications are better off remaining private.
Topics: aws
2 min read
Hava Releases HashiCorp Terraform Provider Integration
By Team Hava on November 14, 2022
Modern GitOps practices are based around the use of automations to deploy and manage cloud environments. One of the major players in this space is HashiCorp who's Terraform application is used by developers, DevOps and engineers around the world to deploy cloud infrastructure using code.
Topics: aws azure gcp terraform
9 min read
AWS Cloud Architecture Diagram Generator
By Team Hava on November 10, 2022
If you work with AWS at any scale, you will understand the benefits of accurate network documentation. Whether it's trying to get to grips with a network belonging to a new client, or getting a better understanding of exactly what you have running in your own cloud accounts, an accurate network topology diagram goes a long way to quickly understanding the state of play.
Topics: aws cloud
7 min read
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials | Global Infrastructure and Reliability
By Team Hava on November 8, 2022
Following on from our post on the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Compute topic, in this post we’ll look at module 3 which concerns itself with the global infrastructure AWS has in place to deliver cloud services and the reliability built in using the various regions and availability zones to provide both redundancy and lower latency.
Topics: aws DevOps cloudcomputing
6 min read
Hava supports Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)
By Team Hava on November 3, 2022
Did you know your Hava account supports MFA. Are you using it? MFA provides an optional layer of account log in security, but you probably already know that. In addition to your user name and password, you will be required to enter a one time code generated by a supported TOTP authentication application like Google Authenticator or Authy.
Topics: aws security azure gcp mfa
12 min read
Generate Amazon AWS Architecture Diagrams
By Team Hava on November 2, 2022
AWS cloud architecture can get complex fast. Once you rotate through a few engineers or external consultants how confident are you that someone within your organisation knows exactly what you have running in your cloud accounts and are those resources actually being used.
Having up to date diagrams can be invaluable when you want to know how your networks hang together or need to explain to stakeholders what you have running and why.
The problem with creating and maintaining network diagrams manually is finding the time to do it in the first place, which is never anyone's priority and then finding the time to update the diagrams when things change (which they invariably do)
Topics: aws cloud Documentation security visualization diagrams
13 min read
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials | Compute
By Team Hava on November 1, 2022
The AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials is a course and examination designed to help you understand the essentials of AWS.
Topics: aws
14 min read
Cloud Estate Rationalisation
By Team Hava on October 19, 2022
As more companies turn to the cloud to host critical business applications, mass cloud adoption brings with it a new set of challenges.
Topics: aws azure gcp cloud estate rationalization
4 min read
AWS Microservices Architecture Diagrams
By Team Hava on October 13, 2022
If you have adopted a micro-services approach to application development, you'll understand the benefits of diagrams showing the status and connections of the configured services.
Topics: aws
8 min read
Cloud Diagrams | Hava.io
By Team Hava on October 11, 2022
Topics: aws Consulting Documentation diagrams
4 min read
5 min read
Generate Cloud Network Diagrams Free Trial
By Team Hava on October 4, 2022
When you are building cloud based infrastructure or are handed a new account or existing project to manage, the very first thing you are likely to ask yourself is what does the infrastructure look like? What resources are running? Where are they running? What does the security look like?
Topics: aws Documentation azure gcp kubernetes DevOps containers cloudcomputing
5 min read
What is AWS Athena?
By Team Hava on September 27, 2022
Amazon Athena is a service that enables you to perform SQL queries on data held in amazon S3. There are no complex ETL pipelines to create which makes Athena perfect for anyone with SQL skills to analyse large amounts of data without having to extract and prepare data held in S3.
Topics: aws athena
4 min read
How to Monitor Amazon AWS Auto Scaling Groups
By Team Hava on September 20, 2022
Auto scaling AWS resources in your cloud infrastructure protects the performance of your applications when they are placed under heavy traffic or processing loads.
Topics: aws
6 min read
7 min read
What is Amazon AWS Redshift?
By Team Hava on September 6, 2022
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse solution from AWS that allows you to store and query large volumes of analytical data. It is fast and scalable providing a 10x performance lift over other data warehouses by using machine learning and parallel processing of queries against columnar storage held on very high performance disk.
Topics: aws
5 min read
How to validate your cloud architecture implementation
By Team Hava on September 2, 2022
When you are deploying cloud infrastructure to AWS, Azure or GCP you typically want to validate that everything went according to plan.
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes DevOps
5 min read
Cloud Account Search Engine | Hava.io
By Team Hava on August 30, 2022
If you are managing multiple cloud accounts or maybe hundreds or tens of thousands like a managed service provider (MSP), the ability to find particular resources or specific resource types can be difficult.
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes
3 min read
Integrate Cloud Diagrams in your CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
By Team Hava on August 29, 2022
Hava is excited to announce the general availability of the Hava Github Action on the GitHub marketplace.
Topics: aws github
13 min read
Draw Microsoft Azure Diagrams Online
By Team Hava on August 24, 2022
If you have worked with Microsoft Azure for any length of time, you will appreciate the value of great network topology diagrams. Azure network infrastructure diagrams provide a visual cue for better communication and understanding of your azure cloud infrastructure at all levels of your organisation, from management down to freshly onboarded engineers and consultants. But should you draw Azure diagrams yourself, or automate the process?
Topics: cloud azure visualization Version History diagrams kubernetes
7 min read
What is the Amazon AWS CAF Cloud Adoption Framework
By Team Hava on August 23, 2022
The AWS CAF was created by AWS professional services to help businesses create and implement a comprehensive digital transformation plan that complies to AWS best practice. The framework takes advantage of the lessons learned by AWS pro services and partners helping thousands of customers successfully transition workloads to the AWS cloud.
6 min read
5 Reasons Why You Should Automate Your Cloud Diagrams
By Team Hava on August 17, 2022
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes msp github
2 min read
Hava Azure Cloud Diagram Updates | Aug 2022
By Team Hava on August 16, 2022
Hava are excited to announce a number of significant enhancements to the Azure diagrams that are automatically generated when you connect your Microsoft Azure accounts to hava.io or your self-hosted Hava app.
Topics: azure
5 min read
Adding Hava Interactive Cloud Diagrams to Confluence
By Team Hava on August 11, 2022
You may already be aware that Hava auto generates interactive network topology and container workload diagrams for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes.
6 min read
What is Amazon AWS Skill Builder?
By Team Hava on August 9, 2022
AWS Skill Builder is a repository of over 700 training lessons to help you learn AWS and refine your knowledge of AWS services and improve your skills so you can put them into practice or apply the knowledge during the many AWS certifications.
Topics: aws skill builder
6 min read
What is Amazon AWS Global Accelerator
By Team Hava on August 2, 2022
AWS Global Accelerator is a service that allows you to route traffic to your applications using the AWS global network instead of the internet. The internet can be congested and AWS claim that by using their private network infrastructure you can improve the connection speed and performance by as much as 60%.
Topics: aws
8 min read
What is Amazon AWS Cloudscape Design System
By Team Hava on July 27, 2022
Cloudscape Design System, is an open source solution from AWS for building intuitive, engaging, and inclusive user experiences at scale. Cloudscape consists of an extensive set of guidelines to create web applications, along with the design resources and front-end components to help streamline implementation.
Topics: aws
3 min read
How to Use Hava Embedded PNGs in your markdown files
By Team Hava on July 25, 2022
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Pulumi, or other tools has become the industry standard for deploying and managing infrastructure in the cloud. And when documenting your infrastructure deployments, it is useful to always include a diagram so your peers can quickly understand the architecture of the IaC deployment.
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes github iac
3 min read
Hava adds GCP Pub/Sub Diagrams
By Team Hava on July 21, 2022
There are a massive number of reasons why Google Cloud users are turning to Pub/Sub to manage messaging and data movement between applications. This can be data analytics streams, real time events or application events that are ingested by other services. Pub/Sub is also used as messaging oriented middleware to queue tasks for applications or services based on user interaction or server events.
Topics: gcp pub/sub
12 min read
Cloud Architecture Search and Visualization for MSPs
By Team Hava on July 19, 2022
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes msp
3 min read
Hava Self Hosted Cloud Diagram Generator
By Team Hava on July 18, 2022
Hava is a cloud based application that automatically generates cloud network topology diagrams for AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes clusters and provides powerful search capabilities to help you locate resources across hundreds of cloud accounts fast.
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes self-hosted
8 min read
What is AWS Security Hub?
By Team Hava on July 13, 2022
AWS security hub is a cloud security posture service that automates security checks and brings security alerts into a central location. The service performs best practice validation against your security settings, aggregates alerts and automates remediation of non compliant security settings.
Topics: aws security
4 min read
Interactive Network Diagrams in Notion Using Hava
By Alan Blackmore on July 6, 2022
We're huge fans of productivity tools and applications, especially ones that save time and help keep things organised. While we are all about saving you time diagramming your cloud infrastructure, finding resources quickly and automating the discovery of everything you have running in the cloud, there are some great applications out there dedicated to organising your work life, managing projects and teams and keeping on top of whatever you have going on.
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes notion
5 min read
How To Embed Hava Cloud Network Diagrams
By Team Hava on July 4, 2022
Hava is pleased to announce the general availability of enhanced diagram embeds
When you have an incredibly useful resource, like an accurate up to date cloud network topology diagram, the chances are at some point you are going to want to share it.
Topics: aws azure gcp diagrams
6 min read
What is AWS Amazon QuickSight?
By Team Hava on June 28, 2022
Amazon QuickSight is a popular cloud native serverless business intelligence (BI) service from AWS.
Topics: aws quicksight
11 min read
AWS Diagram Architecture by Hava
By Team Hava on June 22, 2022
When you work with AWS cloud architecture, you almost certainly understand the importance of documenting your AWS VPCs and container clusters using network architecture diagrams.
Topics: aws cloud
8 min read
Amazon AWS Kubernetes Diagrams
By Team Hava on June 16, 2022
When you are building applications and deploying them using containers, getting a visual representation of what pods or tasks are running is an invaluable tool to check that everything is as it should be.
Topics: aws kubernetes eks
15 min read
Killing Your Long Lived Development/Test Cloud Environments
By Team Hava on June 14, 2022
One of the key roles of cloud network managers is containing costs. It is so easy to add to networks and scale resources in the never ending quest for lower latency and better application performance.
Topics: aws Consulting azure gcp kubernetes DevOps
13 min read
Container Diagram Generator
By Team Hava on June 8, 2022
With the wide adoption of containers as a method of rapidly deploying software applications to the cloud, the need to visualise workloads has been gaining momentum. The need to see the status of pods and tasks in container clusters is a major benefit when you visualise containerised workloads on an interactive diagram.
Hava has always generated diagrams for traditional compute VPCs and virtual networks and for a long time has also automatically generated AWS ECS Cluster diagrams when clusters are detected in a connected AWS account.
The ability to diagram other containerised workloads, particularly the market leading Kubernetes has now been added to the core functionality of Hava so you can now view AWS EKS Kubernetes clusters, Azure Kubernetes Clusters (AKS), Google Kubernetes Clusters (GKE) and also stand alone Kubernetes Clusters
One of the diagrams that is automatically generated when you connect your AWS account to Hava is the AWS ECS Container View.
Topics: aws visualization kubernetes containers ecs
18 min read
Draw Microsoft Azure Architecture Diagrams
By Team Hava on June 2, 2022
If you are building solutions on Microsoft Azure, at some point you'll want to draw some Azure architecture diagrams
When you have accurate and up to date architecture diagrams on hand it enables you to visually explain your network infrastructure to both your engineering and operations team and also provide management with an easy to understand representation of what you are building and managing.
Accurate up to date diagrams also let you know that your network has been built in line with your design.
If you are onboarding new engineers, or engaging external consultants, you can bring them up to speed very quickly with a well laid out Azure network topology diagram.
The problem with traditional diagrams has always been the time it takes to draw them, which is why it's better to consider generating them instead. If you use manual drag and drop diagram software or drawing packages like Microsoft Visio the process can take forever which is why up to date Azure network topology diagrams are rarely on hand. Cloud engineers almost always don't have the time or motivation to sit down and draw Azure architecture diagrams. Who doesn't have far more important or pressing issues to work on.
This is where you can leverage Hava to help you create Azure diagrams.
If you are taking on a new client or development project, having access to infrastructure documentation is a massive advantage when trying to understand exactly what is running on your network. Come to think of it, with the complex nature of cloud consoles and network configurations you may be surprised at what you have running in your existing Azure infrastructure.
Back in the day our team provided expert cloud consulting services. When we took on a new client, diagramming the new client's infrastructure was always the first job in the process. It was always, without exception, time consuming, laborious but necessary in establishing exactly what was going on in the client's cloud accounts prior to starting work on improving or redesigning the network infrastructure.
Topics: cloud azure visualization Version History diagrams kubernetes
8 min read
Amazon AWS Compute Services
By Team Hava on May 31, 2022
Whether you are building a new application or migrating legacy on premise workloads to AWS it's good to know what compute services are available and which ones might be a good choice for your specific application or workload.
Topics: aws containers lambda serverless
3 min read
4 min read
Have you designed your AWS architecture for AZ failures
By Team Hava on May 24, 2022
AWS availability zones are on the whole extremely robust, however they are not completely immune to outages. Geographically they are subject to natural and technical disasters that can affect any data center, like floods, prolonged power outages, fires or someone inadvertently slicing through a fibre optic cable.
Topics: aws
4 min read
Do You Manage Cloud Architecture for Multiple Clients?
By Team Hava on May 19, 2022
Topics: aws azure gcp diagrams kubernetes
3 min read
Security View Enhancements in Hava
By Team Hava on May 17, 2022
As part of our ongoing quest to help you understand what your cloud infrastructure and security posture looks like through easy to understand diagrams and visualisations, several enhancements to the current security view diagrams have been released that deliver even more clarity to potentially complex visualisations.
Topics: aws security azure diagrams
2 min read
Hava adds GKE auto import and more GCP enhancements
By Team Hava on May 16, 2022
In the latest release, Hava users running GKE workloads will see container diagrams auto generated in their environments dashboard. This new functionality closely follows the addition of direct import of stand alone kubernetes clusters.
Topics: gcp
4 min read
How to find your cloud services fast in the middle of an outage
By Team Hava on May 12, 2022
So imagine your worst nightmare. The cloud based application you have just inherited management and support for has just crashed. The support lines are lit up like a Christmas tree, the support ticket system is having a meltdown and everyone is looking at you for a solution.
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes
6 min read
What's Running Where in Your Cloud Resource Infrastructure
By Team Hava on May 10, 2022
Could your team show you with any confidence what systems and resources you have running in the cloud. Could they do that today, or right now.
Topics: aws azure gcp DevOps cloudcomputing
3 min read
Hava adds K8s Cluster Support
By Team Hava on May 9, 2022
Hava adds Kubernetes Cluster Diagrams
Topics: kubernetes
16 min read
Increase online security using SSO to centralize IAM and MFA
By Team Hava on May 3, 2022
Whether you are developing cloud based applications or accessing lots of different corporate applications and web properties daily, there is a clear advantage to streamlining your security profile using SSO
Topics: aws azure gcp sso
7 min read
How to find AWS resources fast with Hava
By Team Hava on April 28, 2022
How to find resources in AWS
Topics: aws
8 min read
What is AWS Managed Services?
By Team Hava on April 21, 2022
At the heart of AWS managed services is the provision of services that facilitate AWS cloud adoption, by assisting customers to move from on-premises hardware and software to cloud based infrastructure.
Topics: aws
23 min read
Amazon AWS PCI Diagram
By Team Hava on April 13, 2022
If your application integrates or handles credit card processing, it's a good idea to ensure your network meets PCI DSS standards.
Topics: aws
10 min read
Best Diagram Tool for Cloud Consultants
By Team Hava on April 12, 2022
Topics: aws Consulting azure gcp cloudcomputing
4 min read
Amazon AWS Load Balancer Diagram
By Team Hava on April 6, 2022
When you are building applications or managing infrastructure on AWS, being able to visualise what you have built in diagram form has several major advantages,
Topics: aws
9 min read
Auto Update Cloud Diagrams with Hava
By Team Hava on April 5, 2022
Most developers and engineers working with cloud infrastructure will agree that a well laid out network topology diagram is an essential tool when either communicating how the network is built, or for use when tracking down the reason for an application outage or performance dip.
Topics: aws azure gcp
17 min read
Draw Azure Diagrams with Hava
By Team Hava on March 31, 2022
When you work with Microsoft Azure, you no doubt appreciate the value of great network topology diagrams. Good network infrastructure diagrams provide a visual cue for better communication and understanding of your azure cloud infrastructure at all levels of your organisation, from management down to freshly onboarded engineers and consultants. But should you draw Azure diagrams yourself, or automate the process?
Topics: cloud azure visualization Version History diagrams kubernetes
7 min read
What is Amazon Lightsail?
By Team Hava on March 30, 2022
Amazon Lightsail is a cloud service from AWS that allows you to deploy pre configured Windows and Linux server stacks that you can manage from an intuitive management console.
Topics: aws
7 min read
AWS Lambda Architecture Diagrams
By Team Hava on March 23, 2022
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that executes code in response to events such as website actions, https requests, files being modified or written to S3 buckets and a whole host of integrated AWS services that have the capability to trigger lambda functions in response to a state change.
Topics: aws lambda
12 min read
Amazon AWS Free Tiers and Services
By Team Hava on March 22, 2022
Amazon Web Services offers a wide range of services for building web applications, storing and managing data, managing customer engagement and a whole host of other computing capabilities in the cloud.
Topics: aws
11 min read
AWS Network Architecture Diagram
By Team Hava on March 16, 2022
If you have been working with AWS cloud architecture for any length of time, you almost certainly understand the importance of documenting your AWS VPCs using network topology diagrams.
Topics: aws cloud
6 min read
Amazon AWS Backup for S3
By Alan Blackmore on March 15, 2022
AWS Backup has recently added S3 to the range of supported services in AWS Backup which means you can now use backup to automate the backup of objects and files stored in Amazon S3.
Topics: aws
11 min read
AWS Region Diagrams
By Team Hava on March 10, 2022
Identifying the resources and VPCs in your AWS account and which AWS regions they are deployed in can be a time consuming process that is often put off when there are more important jobs to be done.
If you have been working with AWS infrastructure for any length of time, you understand the importance of documenting your AWS VPCs using network topology diagrams. They visually represent the construction of your AWS network, and can also speed up the on-boarding of new team members and external consultants.
Knowing what regions your infrastructure is deployed in is essential when trying to establish what would happen if there is an outage in one particular AWS region. If us-east-1 drops out, can your application continue to function.
So having a diagram that clearly shows what regions host your VPCs and AWS resources is not a bad idea.
Topics: aws cloud
6 min read
8 min read
Azure Security Diagrams in Hava
By Team Hava on March 2, 2022
AZURE SECURITY VIEW
Topics: security azure diagrams
5 min read
What is Amazon AWS Marketplace?
By Team Hava on March 1, 2022
Despite the name, AWS marketplace isn't related to amazon.com or a handy place to pick up a second hand mountain bike. AWS Marketplace is an AWS managed software catalogue that helps users select, install and manage software and machine images from approved and trusted software vendors. Software installed through the AWS marketplace can be billed directly to your normal AWS account.
Topics: aws
6 min read
AWS Security Architecture Diagrams
By Team Hava on February 23, 2022
Topics: aws cloud Documentation security visualization vpc diagrams DevOps
6 min read
Auto Generate GCP Diagrams
By Team Hava on February 21, 2022
When you are building on GCP or working with applications built on GCP as a development or operations engineer you possibly already appreciate the value of a well laid out network topology diagram. Especially if that diagram accurately represents what resources you have configured in your (or your client's) GCP accounts.
Topics: gcp
3 min read
Cloud Network Real Time Export
By Team Hava on February 17, 2022
If you are building or supporting cloud infrastructure built on AWS, GCP or Azure it is now extremely simple to get a live graphical snapshot of your cloud network topology.
Topics: aws azure gcp DevOps cloudcomputing
17 min read
Auto Generate Azure Diagrams with Hava
By Team Hava on February 16, 2022
As a cloud professional working with Microsoft Azure, you no doubt appreciate the value of great network topology diagrams. Azure 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.
Topics: cloud azure visualization Version History diagrams kubernetes
4 min read
What are AWS Organizations?
By Team Hava on February 15, 2022
AWS Organisations is a free service that allows you to programmatically add and remove AWS accounts and group together AWS accounts into organisational units.
Topics: aws
7 min read
Quickest Way to Create a Google GCP Diagram
By Team Hava on February 10, 2022
When you are building on Google Cloud Platform or working with applications built on GCP as a development or operations engineer you already appreciate the value of a well laid out network topology diagram that accurately represents what resources you have configured in your (or your client's) GCP accounts.
Topics: gcp
7 min read
Quickest Way to Create a Microsoft Azure Diagram
By Team Hava on February 9, 2022
When you are building on Azure or working with applications built on Azure as a development or operations engineer you already appreciate the value of a well laid out network topology diagram that accurately represents what resources you have configured in your (or your client's) Azure accounts.
Topics: azure
11 min read
Quickest Way to Create AWS Diagrams
By Team Hava on February 8, 2022
When you are building on AWS or working with applications built on AWS as a development or operations engineer you already appreciate the value of a well laid out network topology diagram that accurately represents what resources you have configured in your AWS accounts.
Topics: aws
18 min read
Create Azure Diagram
By Team Hava on February 3, 2022
If you are building solutions on Microsoft Azure, you'll almost certainly want to know your architecture has been built in line with your design which often leads to the need to create Azure diagrams.
When you have accurate and up to date network topology diagrams on hand it enables you to visually explain your network infrastructure to both your engineering and operations team and also provide management with an easy to understand representation of what you are building and managing. If you are onboarding new engineers, or engaging external consultants, you can bring them up to speed very quickly with a well laid out Azure network topology diagram.
The problem with traditional diagrams has always been the time it takes to create them. If you use manual drag and drop diagram software or drawing packages like Microsoft Visio the process can take forever which is why up to date Azure network topology diagrams are rarely on hand. Engineers rarely have the time or motivation to sit down and create Azure diagrams. They generally have far more important or pressing issues to work on.
This is where you can leverage Hava to help you create Azure diagrams.
If you are taking on a new client or development project, having access to infrastructure documentation is a massive advantage when trying to understand exactly what is running on your network. Come to think of it, with the complex nature of cloud consoles and network configurations you may be surprised at what you have running in your existing infrastructure.
Back in the day our team provided expert cloud consulting services. When we took on a new client, diagramming the new client's infrastructure was always the first job in the process. It was always, without exception, time consuming, laborious but necessary in establishing exactly what was going on in the client's cloud accounts prior to starting work on improving or redesigning the network infrastructure.
Topics: cloud azure visualization Version History diagrams kubernetes
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What is AWS VPC Peering?
By Team Hava on February 2, 2022
AWS Virtual Private Cloud instances (VPC’s) allow you to run workloads and store data in the cloud.
Topics: aws
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AWS VPC Peering Diagram by Hava
By Team Hava on January 27, 2022
A VPC peering connection is a networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between the two VPCs using private IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. Instances in either VPC can communicate with each other as if they are within the same network. You can create a VPC peering connection between your own VPCs, or with a VPC in another AWS account. The VPCs can be in different AWS regions which is also known as an inter-region VPC peering connection.
Topics: aws vpc cloudcomputing
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Amazon AWS S3 Fundamentals
By Team Hava on January 25, 2022
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) allows you to safely store, retrieve and secure your files on the AWS ecosystem. Storage is segmented into repositories much like a traditional folder that are referred to as buckets.
Topics: aws s3
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AWS Diagram VPC by Hava.io
By Team Hava on January 20, 2022
If you have been working with AWS VPCs for any length of time, you understand the importance of documenting your AWS VPCs using cloud architecture diagrams. Not only do they visually represent the construction of your AWS network, they also speed up the on-boarding of new team members and external consultants the also help you to quickly identify what the network should look like in the middle of an outage.
Topics: aws cloud
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Hava.io Updates January 2022
By Team Hava on January 19, 2022
After a well earned break, our talented developers have been busy putting the finishing touches to a number of new features and enhancements to make your Hava diagrams more detailed and flexible.
Topics: aws azure gcp
6 min read
What is Amazon AWS Cloud WAN
By Team Hava on January 18, 2022
AWS cloud WAN allows you to connect your on premise networks at your company locations, data centers and AWS VPCs together using the AWS global network backbone without having to use the internet.
Topics: aws cloud wan
5 min read
AWS Diagrams for Microsoft Visio
By Team Hava on January 13, 2022
When your mind turns to cloud network diagrams often Microsoft Visio will be the first thing that springs to mind. That's not surprising, given the popularity of this accomplished desktop flow chart/drawing application.
Topics: aws
4 min read
What is Amazon AWS Service Catalog?
By Team Hava on January 11, 2022
When your organisation has hundreds or thousands of users, the logistics of controlling the deployment of software and services can be a complex and time consuming task.
Topics: aws
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What is Amazon AWS DevOps Guru?
By Team Hava on December 14, 2021
Amazon DevOps guru is a machine learning power service that helps you improve your application’s operational performance and availability by detecting anomalies that fall outside normal operating patterns.
Topics: aws
20 min read
Azure DevOps Diagrams for Engineers
By Team Hava on December 9, 2021
When you are working with Azure cloud computing infrastructure in your role as a DevOps engineer, there are many benefits to creating and maintaining accurate Microsoft Azure diagrams.
You can effectively communicate your Azure network design to both technical DevOps staff, developers and also management where necessary. If you are onboarding new DevOps engineers, or engaging external consultants, you can bring them up to speed very quickly with a well laid out accurate infrastructure diagram.
If you are taking on a new client, application or project, having access to detailed infrastructure documentation is a massive advantage when trying to understand exactly what is running where. Back in our cloud consulting days, diagramming a new client's infrastructure was always the first job in the on-boarding process. It was often time consuming, laborious but necessary in establishing exactly what was going on prior to starting work on improving or redesigning infrastructure.
Topics: cloud azure visualization Version History diagrams kubernetes
2 min read
Cloud Diagram Team Collaboration
By Team Hava on December 8, 2021
One of the more advanced features of the Hava business plan is the ability to create teams.
Topics: aws cloud azure cloudcomputing
8 min read
What is Amazon AWS Route 53
By Team Hava on December 7, 2021
Amazon Route 53 is a scalable and highly available DNS service that translates human readable website names like www.hava.io into the numeric IP address location of the target website host (13.35.145.107) or a private VPC or application endpoint.
Topics: aws diagrams cloudcomputing
5 min read
AWS Container Diagrams by Hava
By Team Hava on December 2, 2021
One of the diagrams that is automatically generated when you connect your AWS account to Hava is the AWS Container View.
Topics: aws visualization containers ecs
3 min read
Hava Architecture Diagram Versioning
By Team Hava on December 1, 2021
One of the major advantages of using Hava to automate your AWS, Azure and GCP network infrastructure diagramming is the hands free way things happen.
Topics: aws azure gcp
11 min read
Amazon AWS IAM Policies and Policy Structure
By Team Hava on December 1, 2021
IAM AWS Identity and Access Management is a service that allows you to create and manage users, access credentials and policies within your AWS account.
Topics: aws
6 min read
AWS Diagram Security Group
By Team Hava on November 24, 2021
Topics: aws cloud Documentation security visualization vpc diagrams DevOps
4 min read
Export Real-Time Diagrams with Hava
By Team Hava on November 23, 2021
Network diagrams are only of any practical use if they are up to date. Being able to visualize your cloud network "live" gives you the best chance of identifying problems especially if you are in the middle of an outage or your application is experiencing unexpected performance issues.
Topics: aws azure gcp visualization
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AWS Cloud Architecture Diagram from Hava
By Team Hava on November 18, 2021
Professional cloud engineers understand the importance of documenting networks using network topology diagrams. Not only do they assist with communicating the construction of your cloud network, they also speed up on boarding new team members, external consultants and quickly identifying what the network should look like in the middle of an outage.
Topics: aws cloud
4 min read
How to Track Changes in Google Cloud Environments
By Alan Blackmore on November 15, 2021
Topics: Documentation security gcp Version History
7 min read
AWS Diagram Builder
By Team Hava on November 11, 2021
Accurate AWS network diagrams play a vital role in monitoring and internally communicating the operational status and design of well engineered AWS infrastructure, which is why serious AWS development teams use an AWS Diagram Builder.
Topics: aws cloud
518 min read
AWS CLI Command Reference Guide L - Z
By Team Hava on November 11, 2021
This guide details all of the commands available starting with L- Z for each AWS service supported by the AWS command line interface application.
To view the CLI commands A - Z see this post :
https://www.hava.io/blog/aws-cli-command-reference-guide-a-k
Topics: aws
653 min read
AWS CLI Command Reference Guide A - K
By Team Hava on November 11, 2021
This guide details all of the commands available starting with A - K for each AWS service supported by the AWS command line interface application.
For commands starting with L - Z please see this post :
https://www.hava.io/blog/aws-cli-command-reference-guide-l-z
Topics: aws
47 min read
What is the AWS CLI?
By Team Hava on November 4, 2021
The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a downloadable tool that you can use to manage your AWS services.
Topics: aws cloud DevOps cloudcomputing
8 min read
What is AWS CloudWatch?
By Team Hava on October 27, 2021
Amazon CloudWatch is an AWS service designed to help you monitor the performance and health of your AWS resources and applications. CloudWatch initiates communication with other services in response to events or schedules. CloudWatch will also aggregate logs from other services and aggregate notifications and alarms from groups of services onto a customised dashboard.
Topics: aws cloud DevOps cloudcomputing
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AWS Hybrid Cloud Architecture Diagrams
By Team Hava on October 20, 2021
With the adoption of multiple cloud platforms to take advantage of their individual strengths and cost advantages, it is not uncommon for organisations to build applications and solutions that utilise multiple cloud platforms
Topics: aws Documentation azure gcp Version History vpc
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Introducing Hava.io Projects
By Team Hava on October 19, 2021
We are pleased to announce that Hava now has a Projects feature in preview that enables you to control what diagrams your users can access when logging in to your Hava business account.