It takes a lot of time to document existing cloud infrastructure, especially for large, complex environments. You might have hundreds–if not thousands–of resources spread across regions, VPCs, security groups, and subnets you need to diagram. And modern infrastructure is constantly changing, which makes a diagram out of date as soon as it’s drawn.
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Show Me Your Architecture Vol. 1: Scanning S3 buckets for malware
This is the first part of a series where Cloudcraft customers share their architectures with the community. The goal is to share experiences by discussing real-world architectures from which everyone can benefit.
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AWS Architect Mindset
Architecting applications on AWS is challenging. On the one hand, you need a broad understanding of AWS services. On the other hand, you have to know the details as well. In this blog post, I outline the mindset you need to build on AWS successfully.
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How to Create Visual Representations of Your AWS Environment
In this video of Cloudcraft Live scanning, we’ll demonstrate how easy it is to visualize your AWS environment in just a few clicks.
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How to Choose the Best Way to Scale EC2 Instances
Migrating workloads into the cloud — and specifically to AWS — comes with many advantages. You can operate workloads in new ways. When you only pay for what you use and add capacity within minutes, the world of auto-scaling opens up.
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AWS Architecture Pattern for Scheduled & Serverless Batch Processing
Scheduled batch jobs are the heart of many business processes implemented by enterprise applications. Reports are generated daily, databases are optimized over the weekend, and business logic is executed nightly. The importance of batch jobs satisfies an investment into a reliable architecture to execute the jobs.
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