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Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

#11

Post by lbotos » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 3:43 PM UTC

Some feedback: "In the delta of your current understanding and the reality of the cloud, lies cost savings and insight." This sentence was a little confusing. Maybe:

Cloudcraft make it easy and clear where your could is and where it could go.

Something a little simpler and more direct.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

#12

Post by bitwarrior » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 3:49 PM UTC

Static resources go right in the garbage!

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

#13

Post by redmaverick » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 3:52 PM UTC

Why is it free? Are you planning to monetize it in the future?

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

#14

Post by Rezo » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 3:53 PM UTC

bitwarrior wrote: post #12

Static resources go right in the garbage!

It's supposed to be a S3 Bucket, but I can see how it looks like a trashcan ;)

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

#15

Post by lobsterloga » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 3:54 PM UTC

what would be super cool if given AWS credentials, it'll auto draw the diagram for you?

The tool is awesome, btw! Thank you VERY MUCH.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

#16

Post by newman314 » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 3:58 PM UTC

This is very nice. It would be great to have vCloud Director support at some point.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

#17

Post by Rezo » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 4:02 PM UTC

lbotos wrote: post #11

Some feedback: "In the delta of your current understanding and the reality of the cloud, lies cost savings and insight." This sentence was a little confusing. Maybe: Cloudcraft make it easy and clear where your could is and where it could go. Something a little simpler and more direct.

Thank you, as a non-native English speaker this is extremely valuable feedback. I'll rework the text.

One idea is that could literally run a infrastructure diff of your architecture and your live environment, for example after a deployment or between two points in time: You may have resources left over by accident, or not captured in the design.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

#18

Post by dblooman » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 4:05 PM UTC

discordianfish wrote: post #8

Rezo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's on the roadmap :) https://trello.com/b/mv14mX1U/cloudcraft-roadmap

CloudFormation import would be great as well!

Agreed, this would be my most used feature.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

#19

Post by Rezo » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 4:07 PM UTC

redmaverick wrote: post #13

Why is it free? Are you planning to monetize it in the future?

I was thinking of offering features for larger teams like collaborative editing and sync with a live AWS environment as addons in the future if it proves popular.

Drawing diagrams is and will remain free.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

#20

Post by Rezo » Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 4:12 PM UTC

discordianfish wrote: post #8

Rezo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's on the roadmap :) https://trello.com/b/mv14mX1U/cloudcraft-roadmap

CloudFormation import would be great as well!

With a read-only IAM role installed in your account it could provide import of current resources and a live view of your environment.