Looks great. Feature req: snapping to grid
Aha, good observation. I actually disabled snap-to-grid a couple of weeks ago (was making the mouse drag sluggish for some reason). Probably a bug on my end, need to investigate further and fix.
Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams
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Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams
#12Looks nice, what does it do that something like draw.io doesn't?
Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams
#13Looks nice, what does it do that something like draw.io doesn't?
Good question.
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.
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#15The initial experience to get AWS icons loaded was a little strange. I saw all the Azure icons loaded by default, and when I searched for something like "S3" I got a message that said "No records found. Did you try adjusting your icon preferences from the 'user preferences and settings' menu?", but I couldn't find that menu.
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.
Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams
#16Hello everyone, I'm Mithun, creator of cloudskew.com: a free app for sketching cloud architecture diagrams. 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 fin…
Hihi, hope its okay to ask, but why is it free? It's a great tool, but you have an associated Professional Services and your privacy policy is currently empty [1]. Will we get contacted about contracting opportunities if we sign-up?
Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams
#17The initial experience to get AWS icons loaded was a little strange. I saw all the Azure icons loaded by default, and when I searched for something like "S3" I got a message that said "No records found. Did you try adjusting your icon preferences from the 'user preferences and settings' menu?", but I couldn't find that menu. I eventually saw the "Add/remove icons" option at the bottom of the screen, and figured out h…
Thanks for reporting. Did you notice any browser console errors? If so, would you mind filing an issue here: https://github.com/cloudskew/cloudskew/issues
Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams
#18Looks nice, what does it do that something like draw.io doesn't?
Good question. 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…
These are all pretty killer. For non-generalist stuff this is great - I work for AWS myself and arch diagrams are generally draw.io for me, and considering this is a web service I'd be unlikely to use it but in another life, absolutely.
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!
Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams
#19What was wrong with draw.io?
Re: Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams
#20Hello everyone, I'm Mithun, creator of cloudskew.com: a free app for sketching cloud architecture diagrams. 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 fin…
Hihi, hope its okay to ask, but why is it free? It's a great tool, but you have an associated Professional Services and your privacy policy is currently empty [1]. Will we get contacted about contracting opportunities if we sign-up? 1. https://www.cloudskew.com/about/privacy-policy.html )
LOL. Good questions.
1. Haven't found the time to fill in the privacy-policy, terms-of-usage pages. Been swamped with feature work.
2. No, you'll never get ANY emails from us.
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).