Cloudcraft Pro - Create Smart AWS Architecture Diagrams

As our AWS environment grew across multiple applications, accounts, and environments, maintaining architecture documentation became increasingly difficult. We started using Cloudcraft because the infrastructure was evolving continuously through Terraform deployments, and manually maintaining diagrams was time-consuming and often outdated. Cloudcraft became our preferred platform for creating accurate AWS diagrams that could be shared with engineering teams, management, customers, and auditors. It also provides cost estimation capabilities, which help during solution design and capacity planning.

Whenever a new application is being deployed, we first create the architecture in Cloudcraft before provisioning the infrastructure. This includes all AWS components like Route 53, WAF, and CloudFront, allowing technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand the complete solution before deployment begins.

Cloudcraft has positively impacted our organization as infrastructure documentation is more consistent and easier to maintain. Solution review meetings are much more productive because everyone is discussing the same visual architecture now. Infrastructure planning becomes faster because architecture can be quickly assembled and modified, leading to better customer communication and improved cost awareness.

The best features Cloudcraft offers include visual AWS architecture, the ability to create professional AWS diagrams quickly, significant time savings during solution design, cost estimation, and having estimated infrastructure costs directly within the architecture diagram. Cloudcraft also makes collaboration easier as architecture diagrams can be shared across infrastructure teams. AWS best practice visualization is there, encouraging better architecture design by making it easy to visualize high availability, multi-AZ deployment, public versus private subnets, and security layers. Creating architecture documentation that previously required several hours can now be completed much more quickly.

Architecture design and documentation have had the biggest impact on my team. These are part of our day-to-day work that were time-consuming previously, and now they are easy to accomplish.

There are areas for improvement in Cloudcraft, such as more cloud service coverage and quicker support for new AWS services releases. Real-time collaborative editing could be improved for larger infrastructure teams working simultaneously. Integration with IaaC, such as deeper integration with Terraform and IaaC workflows, could further simplify documenting updates.

I have been using Cloudcraft for more than two years, primarily for AWS structure visualization, documentation, architecture planning, and cost estimation.

Cloudcraft is stable.

We have seen a return on investment as the time spent documenting has shifted from five hours to completing tasks within one or two hours.

We have seen specific outcomes, such as time saved in respect of manual work, documentation, and architecture designing.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is positive as Cloudcraft provides strong value to organizations requiring regulatory design documents and AWS architecture. I view the pricing as reasonable given the value it delivers, and the setup was straightforward.

Before choosing Cloudcraft, we evaluated other options such as draw.io.

I would advise others looking into using Cloudcraft that it is a very good product for organizations building or maintaining AWS environments who want a professional, efficient, and collaborative way to design and document cloud architectures. I rate this product highly based on my experience.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

My main use case for Cloudcraft is drawing AWS diagrams and schemas. When I use Cloudcraft for AWS diagrams and schemas, for example, when the client asks for some architecture plan, I can make it in Cloudcraft and then send it with all the details about pricing, network infrastructure, and layers shown on the schema. This is incredibly useful for AWS. Cloudcraft is an amazing tool for this use case. Additionally, you can import your Terraform templates, and it will generate a schema for you.

The best feature Cloudcraft offers is its diagram structure, which is amazing. The aspect of the diagram structure that stands out for me is that it is easy to use, which is the most important part. It is easy to use and looks great. Cloudcraft has positively impacted my organization as it has saved us a considerable amount of time.

When I roughly calculate the time I save with Cloudcraft, I can give an example of a project where Cloudcraft made a significant difference. When I had to make a schema for one of the projects, it is internal and confidential information. When I had to make a project structure, it took me minutes to create it, especially if you use the Terraform code.

I think Cloudcraft can be improved by possibly being a little less expensive.

I have been using Cloudcraft for around three years.

Cloudcraft is stable.

Cloudcraft's scalability is perfect, and I have nothing to complain about.

Cloudcraft customer support is great.

I previously used a different solution called draw.io. It was far too limited and was not as well integrated into AWS infrastructure, so I found it not as good as Cloudcraft.

My experience with Cloudcraft's pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is easy to use and easy to set up. It is straightforward.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

What do you like best about the product?

The visuals are amazing. Its easy to get the cloud resorce diagram.

What do you dislike about the product?

Only visualisation does not help. Diagrams should be in the format AWS SA accepts. Missing DevOps automations.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps visualising the cloud components. The UI is awesome.

What do you like best about the product?

Cloudcraft provides me with programmatic access to our architecture diagrams and blueprints. It gives fully automated features for designing our AWS visualization in the form of ready-to-use images or JSON scripts. We can create snapshots and also do comparisons in both pre & post-deployment stages in our AWS environment. We can conveniently take backups, import & export data present in Cloudcraft and secure its access privileges using API-based authentication enablements.

What do you dislike about the product?

The time required to create the snapshot is based on the number of resources we have incorporated in our AWS Region. Its API waits only for up to 120 seconds after which the request is not processed. This results in waiting for snapshot creation which may delay your design requirements if you happen to have immediate deployments on hand.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We prepare our Blueprint for Avensent cloud architecture design through diagram, budget and by attaching components to them. We can also utilize its API feature to build, read, modify and remove the designs in our blueprint. We can share them with our team members, view the cost metrics and configurations of each component & utilizing its cloud libraries for overviewing our resource distributions in the AWS platform.

What do you like best about the product?

The ability to interrogate my account and render it visually is a huge help. Even if just to explain to others how things work, this kind of automatic visualization is a big time saver.

What do you dislike about the product?

Not a "dislike" so much as an eager desire: the ability to output CloudFormation scripts as well as Terraform. We don't use Terraform, but would make tremendous use of CloudFormation scripts.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The visualizations have been great to review the components we have implemented, and to generate "marketecture" diagrams for our company management to use to explain our systems.

What do you like best about the product?

The cost feature-- you can easily update your infrastructure and see what costs you'll incur. I haven't come across another tool that's this good yet. Easily worth the money for this feature alone.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are many missing products, like SageMaker, so there isn't a good way to get an entirely inclusive cost estimate for your stack based on this.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Visualization for our infrastructure. These are being added to the README and to help new devs understand our stack. Helps with understanding costs as well.

What do you like best about the product?

Great tool to help communicate ideas/solutions to not technical staff

What do you dislike about the product?

There is nothing I dislike about cloudcraft software

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

communicate ideas/solutions to not technical staff

What do you like best about the product?

Lets you get on with your DNS, assets and quick installation

What do you dislike about the product?

The Price is quite High , but I think its worth it

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

distributed DNS assests is the quickest way to get website

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Recommendation is one hundred percent

What do you like best about the product?

Cloudcraft is a dynamic cloud infrastructure drawing tool that allows systems architects, developers, and technical designers to create smart diagrams of their cloud infrastructures.

What do you dislike about the product?

One helpful feature would be to link icons with other objects so that they are in an object group.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solving both visual understanding and implementation of our AWS architecture for documentation purposes as well as cost analysis for budgeting and proposals.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Good product to use.

What do you like best about the product?

DRAG AND drop icons.
abilility to show VPCs clearly without ambiguity.

What do you dislike about the product?

missing icons for azure, gcp, oci etc.
some of the aws icons are older.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

createing architecture doiagrams quicly and effectively.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

good product