This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
By Team Hava on January 19, 2021
When you are working with Microsoft Azure, there is no doubt you appreciate the value and necessity of great network topology 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.
By Team Hava on January 14, 2021
When moving your data and applications to AWS or developing a solution from scratch, you are most likely going to be faced with the challenge of selecting the most appropriate of the multitude of database options offered by AWS.
By Team Hava on December 14, 2020
By Team Hava on November 24, 2020
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.
By Team Hava on November 19, 2020
The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides guidance on applying best practices in the design, delivery and maintenance of AWS environments.
By Team Hava on November 10, 2020
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.
By Team Hava on November 4, 2020
No one needs network documentation, until they do.
By Team Hava on October 30, 2020
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.
By Team Hava on October 20, 2020
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.
By Team Hava on October 13, 2020
If you have worked with AWS for any length of time, you will understand the importance of using effective AWS diagram tools.
By Team Hava on September 29, 2020
By Team Hava on September 17, 2020
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.
By Team Hava on September 4, 2020
If you have been working with AWS cloud infrastructure for any length of time, you will probably used or at least heard of Cloudcraft.
By Team Hava on August 27, 2020
Hava cloud infrastructure diagrams now have more flexibility and control so you can adjust the layout canvas to better suit your requirements.
By Team Hava on August 19, 2020
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.
By Team Hava on August 12, 2020
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Compliance Reporting as an addition to our AWS diagram tools. Hava's new reporting module centred around the AWS trusted advisor / well architected methodology is available on selected subscription plans and self hosted enterprise solutions.
By Team Hava on August 4, 2020
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.
By Team Hava on July 29, 2020
One of the advantages of utilising Hava for your cloud infrastructure diagramming and documentation is the availability of a robust and flexible API.
By Team Hava on July 21, 2020
By Team Hava on July 16, 2020
Out of the box, Hava creates logically laid out network topology diagrams derived from the cloud accounts you connect.
By Team Hava on July 14, 2020
By Team Hava on July 8, 2020
In the often hectic DevOps world there would be few people that do not appreciate the necessity for well crafted and accurate cloud network topology diagrams.
By Team Hava on June 30, 2020
By Team Hava on June 24, 2020
If your systems or applications process electronic payments or store client payment and transaction data, then PCI compliance should be a high priority for your business.
By Team Hava on June 9, 2020
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By Team Hava on May 26, 2020
If you have spent any time working with cloud computing infrastructure, you'll already appreciate the value of accurate and up to date network topology documentation.
By Team Hava on May 21, 2020
Hava is happy to announce the release of a significant enhancement to the search functions used to help you quickly locate cloud resources and create custom infrastructure diagrams.
By Team Hava on May 12, 2020
By Team Hava on May 8, 2020
By Team Hava on April 29, 2020
There's no question that having industry certifications under your belt is one of the best ways to advance your cloud computing career. It's also a great way to help you break into the industry if you are contemplating a career change or looking to show value to a potential employer.
By Team Hava on April 23, 2020
By Team Hava on April 17, 2020
There's no dev team on the planet that wouldn't benefit from accurate infrastructure diagrams.
By Team Hava on April 7, 2020
By Team Hava on March 11, 2020
By Team Hava on March 3, 2020
If you are looking for something interesting to fill your earbuds in 2020, here's a list of 50 podcasts worth a listen.
Mostly focused on Cloud Platforms, DevOps and Security there is sure to be something in there that resonates with you.
By Team Hava on February 27, 2020
We’ve all heard the cliche “A picture paints a thousand words”, but there is real value in using images to explain complex technical information.
By Team Hava on February 26, 2019
Amazon Web Services (AWS) have launched a re-designed set of diagram icons, the first version release was for AWS re:invent 2018, with the official public release on the 2nd of February 2019. Hava now supports diagrams using the new icon set, so you can discover, diagram, diagnose, and document your environments straight from the source of truth with a familiar style.
By Team Hava on December 4, 2018
Cloudcraft is known for their isometric AWS diagrams and often one of the tools used to depict the layout of your cloud environments, along with Lucidchart and Draw.io. We all need to start somewhere with our network diagrams, whether it's on a whiteboard, in a drawing tool or in a drag and drop builder.
By Team Hava on August 8, 2018
Canalys estimates cloud infrastructure services spend reached US$20 billion in Q2 2018. The top three cloud providers account for 57% market share.
By Team Hava on August 2, 2018
AWS security groups act as a virtual firewall for your EC2 instances to control inbound and outbound traffic.
"Security groups act at the instance level, not the subnet level. Therefore, each instance in a subnet in your VPC could be assigned to a different set of security groups." - AWS Documentation
Trawling through your VPC flow logs helps provide visibility into your network traffic to detect anomalous traffic and provides insights, however, it still comes with its own risk of error.
Generating a visual diagram from the source of truth with automated layouts to display your network infrastructure as it is right now can eliminate the potential risk of human error.
Hava offers several ways to assist with diagnosing security within your network.
By Team Hava on June 14, 2018
There is no doubt that as we continue to move further into cloud networking and infrastructure our environments are evolving daily. This rapid pace of change is failing to keep up with the expectation that your team knows "how it works" and "what it looks like". Keeping network diagrams up to date is often the last thing on most engineers mind, until the time you need them which in some cases is too late.
Manual creation and updating of diagrams are tedious and time-consuming and not that effective with continuous change. These days we have the ability to automate the process of generating and drawing a diagram, getting the information straight from the source of truth.
By Rebecca Rumble on July 5, 2016
So you’ve got approval to hire a consultant on a six-month contract to fast track your project. You’ve found the perfect consultancy with proven success in everything you need to implement. Your Scope of Work (SOW) has been signed off on and your consultant starts in a week. Hoorah!
You want the project to be a resounding success, right?
Onboarding your cloud consultant properly is the most critical thing to you can do to maximize your ROI. They have limited time to deliver you results, not being prepared means your consultant sits idle, and that costs you money.
By Rebecca Rumble on June 6, 2016
Sydney’s wild weather brought down an availability zone in AWS’s AP-SOUTHEAST-2 Region on Sunday night.
Websites went down, customer service calls went up, twitter went nuts, engineers scrambled to find work arounds and management started asking “Why?”.
If your website crashed, you know by now that it’s probably because your application wasn’t designed for region failure.
One outage should not be reason for you to start thinking that the cloud isn’t right for you, or that you should move service providers. But it should make you revisit your architecture.
Failure in cloud services is inevitable regardless of your provider. Outages happen so you must design for failure. Your actual infrastructure availability is irrelevant to your application availability. 100% uptime should be achievable even when your cloud provider has an outage regardless of its size.
By Rebecca Rumble on April 28, 2016
By Peter Gatt on April 20, 2016
AWS has invited Hava to be part of the AWS Startup Pavilion on Day 1 of the AWS Sydney Summit. Having attended AWS Summits and conferences for years, it’s exciting to be on the other side demoing Hava.
If you're registered for Summit, we'll be at the Startup Pavilion on Wednesday so come over and say hello. We’d love to step you through Hava and show you how we can save you time and headaches visualizing your AWS cloud infrastructure clearly.
By Peter Gatt on April 15, 2016
How are you currently creating your cloud diagrams? Are you spending quality time with your whiteboard hand drawing them? Or are you trolling through your AWS console, then clicking and dragging in a drawing tool?
Imagine being able to extract real-time diagrams of your actual AWS environments. That would be pretty cool, right?
Well that’s exactly what Hava does!
By Peter Gatt on March 21, 2016
With DevOps now firmly placed in the enterprise sights, we are seeing that automation visibility is becoming critical. Having the view of the state of the delivery pipeline ensures there is an increased awareness of the system as a whole. The question that often arises is “Yes, we need monitoring, but what do we monitor?” There are numbers components of your environments that you should be monitoring, and this blog explores what they are, and why it’s important to monitor them.
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