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Powerful Cloud Visualization
What do you like best about the product?
Diagrams can be exported via easy-to-use yet profound API to export images or download an inventory of your AWS resources from a linked account as JSON. Learning curve is not steep and can be used by cloud engineers, technical managers, project managers, software architects and developers. I specially love the creation of architecture diagrams and service deployment plans.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would be good to see more flexibility to see the versions and history of a specific diagram.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick and deep visualization of the whole cloud fleet providing us more insights and has become a common language among stake holders.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's worth a try.
Sets My Diagrams Apart
What do you like best about the product?
The visual differences from standard diagrams help my work stand out in the field of consulting.
What do you dislike about the product?
CloudCraft makes it clunky to integrate non-standard pieces of architecture and non-AWS services cleanly in a way that feels visually unified. Maybe the ability to skin the parts of the 3D pieces separately or something...it doesn't need to be really easy, I'm happy to spend time making it look good, but it needs to be able to clean up without looking totally incongruous.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Diagramming has always been a boring task with boring results, but immediately I find people are engaged when I show them diagrams I've made in CloudCraft.
The best way to document your AWS infrastructure
What do you like best about the product?
Cloudcraft is really easy to use and hook up to AWS, giving live information for your AWS infrastructure in a clear and semi-automated diagraming tool, offering both 2D and 3D renderings. The interface is intuitive and fast. Track costs and resources and visualise how they interact. The support team are fantastic and are quick to respond to any ideas or issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
With new features coming all the time there is nothing to dislike about Cloudcraft.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking costs and usage in AWS and documenting our setup for quick reference.
Cloudcraft is simply amazing compared to any others.
What do you like best about the product?
Cloudcraft can connect to your Amazon Web Services account and automatically help build/display your diagram of services and even more, show your expenses by using AWS API they can calculate the price of your current or if you are building a new development stack, the cost that it would be. I use this all the time for clients and they are just amazed by the quality of work.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, I wish there were just a few more templates than there are to get started, which is no big deal right now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
None
Graphical AWS Environment
What do you like best about the product?
Show the AWS graphical environment as quickly as possible, automatically and simply. It does not require large configurations in the environment, and shows exactly what we need from the environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price of the solution is too high for a single user. Even though he delivers what I need, information, makes me wonder if it is really worth keeping this cost monthly, for example, or even the current plan. Another point is that the annual value, even with two months less, seems to be little better than the monthly value.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Show our managers what we are talking about, when we explain our environment, about the numbers, and the different services we use within our structure. This tool manages to make this palpable for them, and helps in convincing them, when they need to make a decision to purchase a specific service, for example.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I tried a lots of other solutions, before discover Cloudcraft. And during the trial, already convinced me that it is a very good option to automatically display our environment. The price is quite high, but, depending on your need, I believe it is worth investing, even for a short time. It will certainly help to know and show your environment in a better way to anyone (in my case, the managers).
Very easy to use and complete
What do you like best about the product?
Simple and reliable interface, I liked it a lot.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to have integrations with Terraform and CloudFormation that work in a positive way to facilitate the creation of infrastructure by code
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I managed to create models to put in the presentation of job interview projects and also of the university that added a lot in the notes.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You can use it without fear!
Great to visualize, budgeting is helpful
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoy the budgeting feature that allows me to ballpark an architecture I am building. Also like the snazzy 3d shapes.
What do you dislike about the product?
More support for other cloud providers and generic hybrid architectures would be preferable to me. If you do it right, a customer might be able to define their own object types. Supporting budget calculations would be an awesome bonus on top of that and would be enabled by that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I enjoy using Cloudcraft to help visualize architecture and give some up front ballpark cost estimations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The budgeting feature isn't immediately obvious, but you can set costs for certain objects allowing you to
Best way to visualize my architecture
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the flexibility of being able to create drawings to communicate to my clients or prospective clients. It really helps when doing a cost analysis for a project too and put the entire architecture in front of stakeholders in an intuitive way.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wished it supported other clouds as much as it does AWS, if I am only an AWS user, its a boom but looking forward to multi-cloud scenario easy of use :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cost analysis, easier communication to stakeholders and developers, better future documentation and onboarding
Easy to Use Cloud Visualizations
What do you like best about the product?
I love that the synchronization allows you to see the resource in your live environment for building diagrams. WAY easier than trying to have multiple tabs open, record resources, and build a cloud map all at the same time. When you have the ability to have different related resources grouped together like instances, security groups, subnets, and vpcs managing the resources in the map is far easier.
Another thing is the responsiveness of Cloudcraft. The maps look really great, but the responsiveness is far superior to what you would expect from a browser application. Never have I had any issues with responsiveness even though it is connecting to AWS accounts, syncing, and pulling data for resources into Cloudcraft.
Last, I would say that using Cloudcraft actually makes creating diagrams enjoyable. It feels like it was created by people that care and understand the problems that engineers face when trying to create and provide documentation either internally or to clients. Nothing is difficult to get to, everything I need is just a few clicks away.
Another thing is the responsiveness of Cloudcraft. The maps look really great, but the responsiveness is far superior to what you would expect from a browser application. Never have I had any issues with responsiveness even though it is connecting to AWS accounts, syncing, and pulling data for resources into Cloudcraft.
Last, I would say that using Cloudcraft actually makes creating diagrams enjoyable. It feels like it was created by people that care and understand the problems that engineers face when trying to create and provide documentation either internally or to clients. Nothing is difficult to get to, everything I need is just a few clicks away.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly there is not a lot of downside I have noticed. Maybe that some time the text for the different resources like instances and load balancers overlaps, but other than that nothing comes to mind.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to provide very professional cloud diagrams for clients when performing projects, migrations, and providing documentation. The time it takes to do these things in Cloudcraft is far less than when using other tools. Clients are able to receive simple, but descriptive diagrams of all of their resources and environments which are easy to follow.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you plan to create diagrams for your cloud resources at least give the tool a try. It is superior to any other tool on the market that I have used.
Professional infrastructure diagrams
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use of the tool, the professional look of the finished diagrams.
What do you dislike about the product?
Doesn't have all the components I need for the diagram prebuilt (which isn't a big deal because there are plenty of generic components that work flexibly)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Explaining infrastructure rollouts to upper level management and technical peers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I use this product with every single cloud based infrastructure rollout that I do.
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