Great tool! How do you extend the grid?
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#23Great tool! How do you extend the grid?
Resizing the grid is one of the top next things (https://trello.com/b/mv14mX1U/cloudcraft-roadmap), but it also requires adding panning and zooming of the canvas itself so it's going to a take a little while.
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#24This is so damn sexy (and really useful)! Kudos
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#25Why 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.
you could add basic alert/load/utilization analytics and offer it as it management (or just big tv in room) overview dashboard.
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#26How are you getting accurate pricing for AWS components? I know Amazon's Simple Calculator uses an undocumented pricing endpoint, but that endpoint could change and become inaccurate.
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#27Some 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.
I like the delta sentence. It is artful. The only reason the intent is unclear is a lack of context. I didn't see anything else on the page that references difs or deltas.
I am looking forward to trying cloudcraft on Monday when I have to document a cluster of ec2 instances.
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#28How are you getting accurate pricing for AWS components? I know Amazon's Simple Calculator uses an undocumented pricing endpoint, but that endpoint could change and become inaccurate.
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#29How are you getting accurate pricing for AWS components? I know Amazon's Simple Calculator uses an undocumented pricing endpoint, but that endpoint could change and become inaccurate.
Pages like https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing use a JSONP request to get a big messy chunk of pricing data. I have parsed that, and serve it with a custom API that does the calculations from the Cloudcraft backend to the React-based frontend.
However, AWS just announced a proper pricing API! Check out https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-price-list-api This will make life much easier, it does however not yet cover all services, for example ElastiCache is still missing while Cloudcraft already serves pricing for it.
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#30This kind of tool was sorely needed. I've used countless online diagraming tools with support for AWS icons and every one takes an unnecessarily long amount of time to get working. I ultimately settled on making my own diagrams in PowerPoint using the AWS PPT template. This tool is much easier to use and makes things look great without much effort.
Thanks! I think by focusing solely on AWS instead of trying to create a generic diagram drawing tool it's possible to create a much better experience.
As one of the original guys making those iso diagrams, we asked internal AWS folks to build a tool like this for years. Nice work!