This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

Hava is excited to announce a major overhaul of the available plans and pricing tiers to ensure you only need to pay for the features you are using.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

Auto scaling AWS resources in your cloud infrastructure protects the performance of your applications when they are placed under heavy traffic or processing loads.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

When you are deploying cloud infrastructure you typically want to validate that everything went according to plan.

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.

Hava is excited to announce the general availability of the Hava Github Action on the GitHub marketplace.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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?

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

You may already be aware that Hava auto generates interactive network topology and container workload diagrams for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes. 

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.

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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%.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

Amazon QuickSight is a popular cloud native serverless business intelligence (BI) service from AWS.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

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.

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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. 

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

Hava adds Kubernetes Cluster Diagrams

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

How to find resources in AWS

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

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If your application integrates or handles credit card processing, it's a good idea to ensure your network meets PCI DSS standards.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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,

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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?

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

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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.

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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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

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.

AWS Organisations is a free service that allows you to programmatically add and remove AWS accounts and group together AWS accounts into organisational units.

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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.

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.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

If you are building solutions on Microsoft Azure, you'll almost certainly want to know your network 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.

AWS Virtual Private Cloud instances  (VPC’s) allow you to run workloads and store data in the cloud.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

If you have been working with AWS VPCs for any length of time, you understand the importance of documenting your AWS VPCs using network topology 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.

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.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

One of the more advanced features of the Hava business plan is the ability to create teams.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

One of the diagrams that is automatically generated when you connect your AWS account to Hava is the AWS Container View. 

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.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

Hava is pleased to announce the integration of SSO capabilities, with the initial preview supporting SAML and OIDC providers.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

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

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

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The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a downloadable tool that you can use to manage your AWS services.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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

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.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

AWS network topology diagrams are used for many important tasks. Depending on your role, you will most likely be interested in the elements on the diagram that you are responsible for.

Amazon Web Services or AWS Cloud offers pay as you go on demand compute resources that allow you to run workloads and store data on AWS network infrastructure which removes the need to buy and maintain expensive computer hardware in-house.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

With more and more development teams embracing containerised packaging and deployment of their applications and micro services, the ability to visualise the current state of containerised workloads has become important.

A large part of managing cloud infrastructure is making sure everything is running as expected so that your applications operate and access data efficiently while avoiding over specified resources that cost more than is necessary.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

A well laid out Google Cloud diagram is an important tool for managing and communicating the design and implementation of your GCP architecture.

Classless Inter Domain Routing or CIDR is a prefix based standard for the representation of IP addresses and their routing properties. It was introduced to enable blocks of IP addresses to be grouped together for inclusion in router routing tables instead of needing to include massive blocks of individual IP information. 

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

Accurate AWS topology diagrams are the easiest way to easily understand what you have configured and running in your AWS environments. An accurate diagram also allows you to easily communicate your AWS network design to key stakeholders including new engineers and external consultants.

Accurate AWS cloud diagrams play a vital role in monitoring and internally communicating the operational status and design of your AWS infrastructure.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

When you are working with Microsoft Azure, there are many advantages when you create and maintain accurate Microsoft azure diagrams online.

With accurate up to date diagrams on hand, you can effectively communicate your Azure 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 Azure network topology diagram.

The problem with diagrams is the time it takes to create them. If you are using manual drag and drop diagram software or drawing packages like visio the process can take forever which is why up to date Azure diagrams are rarely on hand. Nobody has the time or motivation to sit down and create diagrams. You usually have far more important or pressing issues to sort out.

This is where creating Azure Diagrams Online using Hava comes into play.

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.

Back in the dim dark past of our cloud consulting days, diagramming a new client's infrastructure was always the first job in the process. It was always time consuming, laborious but necessary in establishing exactly what was going on prior to starting work on improving or redesigning infrastructure.

Ec2 instances are the virtual machines provided by AWS that you can rent to run your application workloads. They can can vary from powerful instances with hundreds of processors capable of processing vast amounts of data quickly, down to small micro instances suitable for running microservices.

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An AWS VPN Diagram is the easiest way to understand exactly how your AWS infrastructure is configured.

There's no doubt that a good AWS VPN diagram is invaluable when trying to understand your AWS infrastructure and communicating how your network topology has been constructed.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

Accurate AWS cloud diagrams play a vital role in monitoring and internally communicating the operational status and design of well engineered AWS infrastructure.

When you are building or operating applications built on Microsoft Azure, one of your primary concerns will be keeping track of any changes that impact the performance of your applications.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

There are many reasons why you would want to visualize your AWS environments. Knowing exactly what is running based on the actual resources running in your cloud environments is probably the number one reason to use an automated Cloud Visualization Tool over manually drawing your network diagrams.

Elastic Beanstalk is a platform within AWS that is used for deploying and scaling web applications. In simple terms this platform as a service (PaaS) takes your application code and deploys it while provisioning the supporting architecture and compute resources required for your code to run. Elastic Beanstalk also fully manages the patching and security updates for those provisioned resources. 

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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.

Cloud computing offers an attractive career path for people who are looking to work in IT or for people already established in the traditional IT landscape who want to re-skill and enter the world of cloud computing.

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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.

The Increasing adoption of cloud based infrastructure by businesses large and small is a testament to the benefits of moving from on premise hardware to infrastructure as a service or the cloud as it more commonly referred.

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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 AWS environments is probably the number one reason to use automated AWS Network Diagram Generator software over manually drawn diagrams.

The evolution of application software development over the last 15 years has given rise to new methodologies in the cloud computing space that were rarely seen when development was purely an in-house activity.

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Accurate AWS deployment diagrams can play a significant role in monitoring and internally communicating the design of well engineered AWS infrastructure.

Auto-scaling is the capability built into AWS that allows you to ensure you have the right number of EC2 instances provisioned to handle the load of your application. Using Auto-scaling, you can remove the guess work in selecting how many EC2 instances are required to provide an acceptable level of performance for your application without over-provisioning resources and incurring unnecessary costs.

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Accurate AWS network topology diagrams play a major part in monitoring and internally communicating the design of well engineered AWS infrastructure.

AWS STS is an AWS service that allows you to request temporary security credentials for your AWS resources, for IAM authenticated users and users that are authenticated in AWS such as federated users via OpenID or SAML2.0.

Google Cloud visualization especially in diagram form is an important approach for monitoring well managed and easily communicated GCP network infrastructure.

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Hava is an application that analyses your cloud configuration and maps out the discovered networks and resources when connected to your AWS, Azure or GCP accounts.

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

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

AWS Trusted Advisor is a service that inspects all the resources present in your AWS account and suggests improvements to bring them in line with AWS best practices.

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

What is AWS Cloudformation?

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When you are working with Azure cloud computing infrastructure, there are many benefits to creating and maintaining accurate Microsoft Azure diagrams.

You can effectively communicate your Azure 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.

If you are taking on a new client or project, having access to 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 induction 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.

Amazon Aurora is an AWS RDS database service that brings together enterprise performance and scalability at pricing that’s more associated with harder to scale open source solutions.

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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.

If you are developing on AWS or any other platform for that matter, you will understand the need for good version control. Git repositories have for a long time been an effective method of controlling software versions, enabling multiple developers to work on the same code base without overwriting each other’s code and providing the opportunity to roll back code in the event of a release introducing unforeseen behaviours, or bugs as they are more commonly referred to.

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AWS Fargate is a service that provisions serverless compute resources to run AWS ECS and EKS containers.  AWS states that Fargate allows you to focus on building your applications when you let Fargate provision and manage the infrastructure required. Think of it as containers on-demand with no underlying manually created infrastructure that are quick to launch and scale, where you manage everything at the container level.

When you are working with AWS cloud infrastructure, accurate network topology diagrams play a major part in monitoring and internally communicating the design of your AWS infrastructure.

Being able to visualise all of your AWS components and resources in diagram form assists in understanding what is running where and also helps experienced engineers spot vulnerabilities and redundancy issues in network design.

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AWS Lambda is a service that allows you to run code and containers without the need to set up, manage or provision servers. Lambda runs your code on highly available compute cloud infrastructure via Functions.  Lambda takes care of server and OS maintenance, scaling, code monitoring and activity/error logging.