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Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by swalberg »

Rezo wrote: post #52
mariocesar wrote: post #51

Something interesting to do from now on: Search in Google `site: https://cloudcraft.co/view` You will see the shared links from existing diagrams. Right now Google had just indexed one https://cloudcraft.co/view/d3908616-4d96-4d5c-8747-6856e8801...

Sorry to spoil the fun, but I've disallowed /view/ from robots.txt to prevent accidental shares. I think this one must have been from someone sharing on Twitter or some other public place where Google would have picked it up.

robots.txt only tells spiders not to request a certain path. The search engine can still infer the content of the page from the link or surrounding text, and show it. Google usually annotates these in the SERPs with something like "Google is not displaying the contents of the page because it's been blocked with robots.txt"

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by chr15 »

Rezo wrote: post #29
chr15 wrote: post #26

How 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 cove…

Yup, that JSON is the response from the endpoint I'm referring to. Congrats on shipping!

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by LoSboccacc »

Rezo wrote: post #37
LoSboccacc wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or if we want to be picky: Cloudcraft allow you to dump your own understanding into a diagram, which may or may not be correct. I was hoping from the article wording of a tool using some form of read only grant to amazon to draw the diagram for you, but this is just seems one step above dia.

I am working on import from AWS via a read-only role into Cloudcraft right now :)

I'll be back!

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Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by jsz0 »

Looks good. I was able to put together a fairly complex diagram in about 15 minutes. Thats better than I can do with most traditional diagramming applications. In that way having limited options helps because there's less things to get distracted by. Anytime I try to make a diagram in Visio or Omnigraffle I spend (at least) 15 minutes just adjusting fonts, sizing, etc. It ends up being a very frustrating experience. So much so that I've mostly gone back to making paper diagrams.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by impostervt »

Rezo wrote: post #39
impostervt wrote: post #35

Is the grid/menu/etc all custom, or are you using some UI libraries?

The grid and everything on it is custom made on top of HTML5 Canvas, that's probably 80% of the code, many of the elements are isometrically projected at runtime. The menus and dialogs are done using Material-UI ( http://www.material-ui.com ) and React.js

Please consider open sourcing that grid. It's very cool by itself and could be used for a lot of other things.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by dmritard96 »

Rezo wrote: post #37
LoSboccacc wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or if we want to be picky: Cloudcraft allow you to dump your own understanding into a diagram, which may or may not be correct. I was hoping from the article wording of a tool using some form of read only grant to amazon to draw the diagram for you, but this is just seems one step above dia.

I am working on import from AWS via a read-only role into Cloudcraft right now :)

just signed up - please notify me when this feature is out!!!

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by narsil »

teddythetwig wrote: post #31

Amazon recently introduced a tool similar to this called cloudformations designer.

The visuals aren't 3D. The OP's mirrors AWS' own architecture diagrams in their guides and case studies. It's unfortunate CloudFormations Designer doesn't create visuals like the ones AWS' own designers use.

Re: Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams

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Post by narsil »

Awesome! This is solving a real problem when it comes to visualizing infrastructure. I recently provided AWS with feedback at a focus group in SF on releasing a tool like this. So far, I've had to use Gliffy to create diagrams using Amazon's official Simple Icons. [0]

Minor note: my screen is fairly narrow, and the Preview/Export buttons hide the action buttons for EC 2 nodes. I notice the element has a z-index of 1. It might be better to ensure the Preview/Export buttons are always hidden by any boxes appearing when the user clicks a component.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/

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