Behind the scenes, our talented dev team have been beavering away to transform Hava's UI to a cleaner, more intuitive and we think much nicer look and feel.
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IT Audit Tools for CTOs | Leveraging Hava for Compliance and Audits
Staying Ahead of the Game: Leveraging Hava for Compliance and Audits
Topics: aws azure gcp audit compliance
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From Chaos to Clarity: How Hava Streamlines Communication for Cloud Teams
In the modern digital landscape, cloud infrastructure has become the backbone of many organizations. IT managers, CTOs, and cloud architects are at the forefront of this transformation, tasked with the monumental responsibility of ensuring that cloud operations run smoothly, securely, and efficiently.
Topics: aws azure gcp cloudcomputing
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Hava CLI - Real Time Architecture Diagrams in Your CICD Pipelines
Hava's CLI is now generally available. This will enable you to perform functions like adding new cloud accounts or environments to your Hava account as well as generating and updating diagrams as you deploy resources via IaC or command line scripts.
Topics: aws azure gcp api cli
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Top 7 Reasons to Upgrade Your Hava Subscription
If you are currently taking advantage of the Free Tier Hava plan, or coming to the end of your 14 day free trial after exploring the full range of Hava's capabilities now is the time to consider which subscription plan to move forward with.
Topics: aws azure gcp Version History hava
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AWS Control Tower Integration
We're happy to announce that the Hava AWS Control Tower integration is now available.
Topics: aws cloudcomputing control tower
15 min read
Cloud Architecture Diagram
Introduction to Cloud Architecture Diagrams
Topics: aws azure gcp diagrams cloudcomputing architectural monitoring
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What is Hybrid Cloud? How to visualise multi cloud deployments
What is Hybrid Cloud?
Modern IT strategies have seen a mass migration away from on premise hardware to the cloud which brings its own challenges. Organizations are seeking new ways to remain agile, cost-effective, and secure. Hybrid cloud architecture has emerged as a game-changing solution, seamlessly integrating public and private clouds sometimes with on-premises infrastructure for unparalleled flexibility and scalability.
Topics: hybrid cloud
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How to capture historical AWS Azure and GCP cloud changes
When you are working with cloud architecture, knowing when things have changed can be extremely important.
Topics: aws azure gcp
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Subscribe to Hava on AWS Marketplace
Team Hava are pleased to announce you can now subscribe to Hava directly within your AWS account via AWS marketplace.
Topics: aws aws marketplace
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Azure Diagram Generator
As a cloud professional working with Microsoft Azure, you no doubt appreciate the value of great cloud architecture diagrams. Well laid out 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
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Generate AWS Diagram
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.
Generate AWS Diagrams on autopilot using Hava and free yourself from drag and drop forever.
Topics: aws cloud DevOps
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Hava Self Hosted Update v2.3.877 is Generally Available
We're pleased to announce that a major update is now available for customers running Hava in self-hosted deployments.
Topics: aws azure gcp self-hosted
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Diff View | Easily Identify Cloud Resource Changes
When you are tracking down architectural drift, or investigating the cost or security implications of recently deployed cloud resources, being able to see the difference between architecture versions helps answer many questions.
You can now use Hava to easily identify what has changed in your cloud environments with just 2 clicks.
Topics: aws azure gcp DevOps devsecops
15 min read
Visualizing Cloud Architectural Drift
Architectural drift sneaks up on you. What was once trim and lean cloud infrastructure can soon become a 900lb Gorilla consuming all the resources and budget you can feed it.
Topics: aws azure gcp architectural monitoring drift
10 min read
Tracking the 4 Stages of Cloud Architecture Change During a Project
It's no secret that cloud infrastructure can be complex and ever changing beast. Keeping track of changes intentional or otherwise can be difficult.
Topics: aws azure gcp architectural monitoring
6 min read
Cloud Diagrams for Troubleshooting and Maintenance
Managing and maintaining complex cloud infrastructure can be a daunting task. Knowing exactly what is running where is the starting point, especially if you are starting to troubleshoot an issue. This is where Hava.io steps in, offering a powerful solution that simplifies the process of understanding your cloud environments and enhances the efficiency of cloud management.
Hava.io is a robust software platform designed to automatically diagram and monitor the cloud infrastructure and security groups of any connected Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts as well as GCP and Azure cloud. This innovative tool provides a visual representation of your cloud environment, making it easier to understand the structure and interconnections of your resources.
One of the key features of Hava.io is its automation capabilities. Once a cloud account is connected, Hava.io takes over the task of monitoring the environment and updating the diagrams. This happens hands-free, without any manual intervention, ensuring that you always have an up-to-date view of your infrastructure.
Topics: aws azure gcp
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AWS Architecture Diagram Tool
When you are building 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.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation security visualization vpc diagrams
11 min read
Standardise Your Cloud Documentation | Consistency Rules
How does standardised documentation assist with infrastructure visibility and understanding?
Topics: aws Documentation azure gcp
9 min read
Custom Search | Use Hava to Zero in on Cloud Resources
With large and complex cloud infrastructure it is often difficult to zero in on just the resources or segments of your cloud environment that you are interested in.
Topics: aws azure gcp
10 min read
MSP Client Documentation | Leveraging Hava.io for Managed Service Providers
A Comprehensive Client Communication Guide for MSPs
Can you communicate to your MSP/PS clients exactly what they have running, where those resources are located, how they are secured and what the impact is when things change.
Topics: diagrams DevOps cloudcomputing msp FinOps
11 min read
Boosting Cloud Search Efficiency with Hava.io
Managing multiple or even hundreds or thousands of client cloud accounts is no small feat. The volume of resources, the complexity of architectures, and the variety of services involved can make this a daunting task. When you need to respond to alerts or critical errors, you need to find the affected resources, environments and the cloud account that contains them fast.
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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Cloud Infrastructure Visualization | Show Your Team What's Running Now
Cloud Infrastructure Visualization is the best way to get all your team on the same page when it comes to what cloud computing resources you have running.
Topics: aws azure gcp diagrams cloudcomputing
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Strengthening Cloud Security with Hava Security Diagrams
There's no question organizations need robust cloud infrastructure and security management tools to ensure their data and resources remain secure.
Topics: aws security azure
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Cloud Infrastructure Diagrams for GitHub
Hava cloud infrastructure diagrams are extremely useful for understanding how cloud environments are constructed. They show you what is running, where it is running, how resources are connected and how they are secured.
Diagrams are kept up to date by background tasks that periodically scan for changes in your connected cloud accounts.
Hava diagrams are even more useful when you place them in the web properties where you and your team are working.
Hava's Github Action on the GitHub marketplace is one way you can leverage accurate cloud infrastructure diagrams without being logged into Hava.
Topics: aws github
7 min read
Cloud Architectural Monitoring
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.
Topics: aws security azure gcp DevOps architectural monitoring
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How to Track Cloud Changes for Audits Without Stressing Your Ops Team
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.
Topics: aws azure gcp
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Updating Cloud Diagrams is a Waste of Time
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
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9 Reasons Why Cloud Network Architects Should Use Diagram Automation.
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
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How to fast-track cloud network redesign
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
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Viewing Cloud Architecture Without Trawling Consoles
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
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Streamline Your Architecture Management with Automated Cloud Diagrams
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
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Cloud Diagrams for Teams
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
5 min read
Cloud Network Security Diagrams
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
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How to Reduce Cloud Costs in 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
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CTO Tools: Why care about Hava.io?
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
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A year in review 2022
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
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Best Cloud Diagram Software 2023
Who is creating your cloud infrastructure diagrams in 2023?
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes DevOps
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The Power of Automated Cloud Diagrams: Boost Productivity and Save Time
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
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Diagrams for Cloud Security
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
2 min read
What is AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
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
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Displaying Network Connections with Hava
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 AWS Reachability Analyzer?
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
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Hava Self Hosted (V2.1.522) is now Generally Available
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.
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Find Cloud Assets From Multiple Accounts/Vendors With a Single Query
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
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AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials - Security
AWS are always quick to point out what they refer to as the shared responsibility security model.
Topics: aws
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Cloud Computing System Architecture Diagrams
Why automate cloud computing System Architecture Diagrams?
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AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials - Networking
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
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Hava Releases HashiCorp Terraform Provider
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
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AWS Architecture Diagram Generator
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
6 min read
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials - Global Infrastructure and Reliability
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
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Hava supports Multi Factor Authentication MFA
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
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Generate AWS Architecture Diagrams
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
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AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials - Compute
The AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials is a course and examination designed to help you understand the essentials of AWS.
Topics: aws
66 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [Oct 28th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Oct 21st 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Cloud Estate Rationalization
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Oct 14th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS Microservices Architecture Diagram
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Oct 7th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Generate Cloud Network Diagrams Free
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
54 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [Sep 30th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
5 min read
What is Amazon Athena?
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
19 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [Sep 23rd 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
3 min read
How to Monitor AWS Auto Scaling Groups
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
53 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [Sep 16th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Sep 9th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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What is Amazon Redshift?
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
44 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [Sep 2nd 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
4 min read
How to validate your cloud implementation
When you are deploying cloud infrastructure you typically want to validate that everything went according to plan.
Topics: aws azure gcp kubernetes DevOps
5 min read
Cloud Account Search Engine
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
2 min read
Integrate Diagrams in your CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
Hava is excited to announce the general availability of the Hava Github Action on the GitHub marketplace.
Topics: aws github
32 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [Aug 26th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
13 min read
Draw Azure Diagrams Online
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
6 min read
What is the AWS CAF Cloud Adoption Framework
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.
54 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [Aug 19th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Hava Azure Cloud Diagram Updates Aug 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
7 min read
AWS Infrastructure Diagram Generator
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.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation security visualization vpc diagrams
32 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [Aug 12th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
4 min read
Adding Interactive Cloud Diagrams to Confluence
You may already be aware that Hava auto generates interactive network topology and container workload diagrams for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes.
5 min read
What is AWS Skill Builder?
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
39 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [Aug 5th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
6 min read
What is AWS Global Accelerator
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
55 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [July 29th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
7 min read
What is AWS Cloudscape Design System
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
2 min read
Use Hava Embedded PNGs in your markdown files
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
50 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [July 22nd 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
2 min read
Hava adds GCP Pub/Sub Diagrams
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
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Hava Self Hosted
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
39 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [July 15th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
8 min read
What is AWS Security Hub?
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
31 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [July 8th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
4 min read
Interactive Network Diagrams in Notion
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 Cloud Network Diagrams
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
66 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [July 1st 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
5 min read
What is Amazon QuickSight?
Amazon QuickSight is a popular cloud native serverless business intelligence (BI) service from AWS.
Topics: aws quicksight
49 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [June 24th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
8 min read
AWS Diagram Architecture
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
33 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [June 17th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
8 min read
AWS Kubernetes Diagrams
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
14 min read
Killing Your Long Lived Dev/Test Cloud Environments
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
43 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [June 10th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
14 min read
Container Diagram Generator
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
49 min read
In Cloud Computing This Week [June 3rd 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
17 min read
Draw Azure Architecture Diagrams
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
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AWS Compute Services
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [May 27th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Have you designed your AWS network for AZ failures
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [May 20th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Hava Security View Enhancements
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
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Hava adds GKE auto import and GCP enhancements
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [May 13th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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How to find cloud services fast in the middle of an outage
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
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What's Running Where in Your Cloud Infrastructure
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [May 6th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
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Increase online security using SSO to centralise IAM and MFA
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Apr 29th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Apr 22nd 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
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What is AWS Managed Services?
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Apr 15th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
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AWS PCI Diagram
If your application integrates or handles credit card processing, it's a good idea to ensure your network meets PCI DSS standards.
Topics: aws
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Apr 8th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS Load Balancer Diagram
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,
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Auto Update Cloud Diagrams
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Apr 1st 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
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Draw Azure Diagrams
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
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What is Amazon Lightsail?
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Mar 25th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS Lambda Architecture Diagram
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
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AWS Free Tiers and Services
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Mar 18th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
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AWS Network Architecture Diagram
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
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AWS Backup for S3
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Mar 11th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS Region Diagram
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Mar 4th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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What is AWS Marketplace?
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Feb 25th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Auto Generate GCP Diagrams
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Feb 18th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Cloud Network Real Time Export
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
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Auto Generate Azure Diagrams
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
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What are AWS Organizations?
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
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Feb 11th 2022]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Quickest Way to Create a GCP Diagram
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
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Quickest Way to Create an Azure Diagram
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.
