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Re: Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams

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Unfortunately not – this is what building modern cloud based software is like! This software complexity crisis is what we're trying to fix with Encore [1], if you're interested. [1] https://encore.dev

Your demo[1] returns a 502 error. [1]: https://play.encore.dev/

Thanks, it's back up now.

Re: Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams

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The only service that appears to cost a flat fee is 'Amazon Neptune', which on the cheapest plan costs ~10 cents an hour or ~$70/month. I imagine all the other costs (e.g. S3, Fargate, API Gateway, CloudFront) are negligible in comparison.

The ElasticSearch cluster is a fixed cost also.

Elasticsearch Service (managed clusters) has a variable price depending on node type/count and storage size. Also, you pay for network traffic.

Re: Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams

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Hi there,

I'm from AWS and my team are responsible for development of this project (AWS Perspective).

It's important to note that Perspective is not a traditional diagramming tool like draw.io or Visio. Perspective is intended to display resources that already exist rather than draw new ones.

To do this, Perspective inventories resources in your accounts (Lambdas, DBs, EC2 instances, ENIs, EBS volumes etc.) and can automatically create a diagrammatic representations of that data. Perspective also discovers the relationships between resources and will automatically expose them on the diagram.

The underlying data sits in a graph database (Amazon Neptune). This allows you to explore the relationships in the graph (diagram) on the fly visually to discover how your resources interact with one another.

We also have the early stages of a feature to show the estimated cost of the resources in the diagrams you create.

The project is open source and our roadmap is public. I encourage you to check it out and add any commentary for features you'd like to see (or bugs you find!).

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-perspective

I'm also happy to answer any questions.

Re: Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams

#26

"Simplify" seems to be missing from your Invent and Simplify ( https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles )

Also "Frugality" and "Insist on the Highest Standards" seems to be missing from AWS Perspective (no pun intended, it's literally the name of the service)

Re: Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams

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I love diagrams and pay for CloudCraft so I’m no stranger to the value of good diagram tools. But I looked at that cloud formation design and immediately thought “crap that’s probably going to cost way too much to run”. Anyone got a good up to date cloud formation to dollars per month tool and want to estimate it? (I’m on a mobile at the moment)

Hi,

You can find an estimated cost breakdown here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/aws-perspective...

(Disclosure: My team developed this project)

Re: Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams

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The ElasticSearch cluster is a fixed cost also.

Elasticsearch Service (managed clusters) has a variable price depending on node type/count and storage size. Also, you pay for network traffic.

It’s “fixed” once you provision it. The other services like Lambda, APIGW, CodeBuild etc. vary according to usage.

ES network traffic wouldn’t cost if you are only retrieving traffic in the same region.

Re: Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams

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Hi there, I'm from AWS and my team are responsible for development of this project (AWS Perspective). It's important to note that Perspective is not a traditional diagramming tool like draw.io or Visio. Perspective is intended to display resources that already exist rather than draw new ones. To do this, Perspective inventories resources in your accounts (Lambdas, DBs, EC2 instances, ENIs, EBS volumes etc.) and can a…

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