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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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)

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.

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.

Who is creating your cloud infrastructure diagrams in 2023?