Check out some diagram samples here - https://www.cloudskew.com/docs/samples.html
Icons for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, CNCF, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud and more are already preloaded in the app.
Documentation for all AWS, Azure, GCP resources can be accessed from within the app itself.
Hope the community finds it useful.
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3. Product is free for individual users. However, there are plans to release a paid enterprise version later in the year (with SSO, customer-managed-encryption-keys, customer-managed-storage, team collaboration features etc).
I worked on an internal tool at a company with a slightly similar UI so I'm curious about it
Edit: They have another service for this.
disclaimer: I haven't personally tried out any of these
Link for others: https://www.cloudskew.com/about/cloudskew-architecture.html
While there are many tools for sketching flowcharts, mind-maps, UML diagrams etc, cloudskew has cloud architecture diagrams as its sole focus.
Also planning your cloud architecture requires several round-trips between your drawing tool, document editor (for architecture documentation), looking up reference architectures, googling for AWS documentation (for resource docs, pricing details etc).
CloudSkew can reduce some of these pains today:
1. It already has a built-in document editor (so architecture documentation + diagrams can reside side-by-side).
2. Links to official docs (including pricing details, SLA) for all AWS, Azure and GCP resources are available within the app itself.
3. Bigger icon set (as far as cloud diagrams are concerned).
Later in the year, some cloudskew features will be coming to make cloud architecture planning easier.
I feel like non-generalist tools like this are useful for exactly what they're good at, especially along with doc links etc.
Any plans to do this cool things like Cloudcraft with describes to pre-populate diagrams? I'd imagine this would be quite an undertaking for a cloud-agnostic service.
Kudos!
Adds business value, no :-)
I eventually saw the "Add/remove icons" option at the bottom of the screen, and figured out how to turn on the AWS icons, but then I got stuck in that menu. I had to refresh the page to get out of it.
I know the guy behind arcentry so just curious.
Which is a shame because the product screenshots look pretty impressive! I'm not too sure what the ultimate experience with 3D/isometric drawings is like, but the diagrams sure look cool!
I thought it might autogenerate visuals based on Terraform or Cloudformation specs. That would be neat!
Anyway, I'm keeping an eye on this. Thanks.
Some time back, I've received a similar feature request for deployment scripts to diagram conversion (and vice versa).
However:
- A very, very small fraction of CloudSkew users have actually requested this feature (i.e. not a whole lot of user demand).
- This is a "high-effort-required" yet "hard-to-get-right" feature (extremely error prone).
So currently, there are no plans to work on this feature.
That said, if enough users demand it AND there is a compelling business case for this, I can definitely add this to the product roadmap.
Does anyone know a visual diagramming tool with diagrams as code support?
I’ve seen some with basic PlantUML importing.
Also I would highly recommend more top level groups (AWS, Azure etc...) instead of having each type of service for each cloud on a new side tab. Basically make it more hierarchical.
Finally, make everything collapsed by default. Having dozens of tabs expanded on start is annoying to say the least.
PS: The search box (on top of the icon palette) should make things a bit easier. For some icons, it can even search with synonyms (e.g. search for 'nosql' will show 'mongodb'). However this is not consistent across all cloud provider icons currently.
Feature req: snapping to grid
I've been using Cloudcraft [0] for a while now for AWS diagrams, and I'm quite happy with it - it even can do some cost estimation stuff based on resources you have in your diagrams!
