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Visually identify observability gaps with Cloudcraft in Datadog (on The Monitor, Datadog’s blog)
Learn how the Observability overlay in Cloudcraft makes it easy to track observability coverage across your environment.
Cloudcraft blog
Clear thinking for complex clouds.
Architecture deep dives, honest trade-offs from engineers who’ve been there, and the latest from the Cloudcraft team.
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The Monitor
Visually identify and prioritize security risks using Cloudcraft (on The Monitor, Datadog’s blog)
Cloudcraft surfaces misconfigurations and other risks directly on a real-time diagram of your cloud infrastructure, so you can quickly identify issues and understand their context.
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The Monitor
Create rich, up-to-date visualizations of your AWS infrastructure with Cloudcraft in Datadog (on The Monitor, Datadog’s blog)
Learn about a new Datadog platform feature that creates live interactive architecture diagrams available to all teams.
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Release notes
Produce clear, easy-to-understand diagrams instantly with Cloudcraft’s new Live experience
Instantly visualize AWS and Azure infrastructure using Cloudcraft's new Live experience.
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Release notes
Cloudcraft launches a new filtering experience
In this blog we introduce the new Cloudcraft filter UI experience and the key steps to take when getting started with Cloudcraft.
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News and updates
Save and restore versions of your architecture diagram with Cloudcraft Version History
Cloudcraft customers can now view previous versions of their blueprints and revert to them. This feature is a win for customers who have made errors in their Cloudcraft blueprint, avoid collaborating on blueprints for fear of making an irrevocable change, or simply want to see their live infrastructure at a previous time.
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The Monitor
Plan new architectures and track your cloud footprint with Cloudcraft by Datadog (on The Monitor, Datadog’s blog)
Learn how Cloudcraft diagrams make it easier for your teams to document, audit, and plan their cloud architectures.
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News and updates
Datadog Bolsters Multi-Cloud Visualization & Design with the addition of Cloudcraft for Azure
Cloudcraft is now available for Microsoft Azure. Create real time diagrams from your live infrastructure, design new architectures and generate Azure or hybrid cloud project budgets.
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The Monitor
Datadog acquires Cloudcraft (on The Monitor, Datadog’s blog)
Datadog has acquired Cloudcraft, an infrastructure modeling solution that enables you to create dynamic architecture diagrams.
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Thoughts and knowledge
Show Me Your Architecture Vol. 1: Scanning S3 buckets for malware
In our community architecture spotlight, bucketAV co-founder Andreas Wittig walks through a scalable, cost-effective AWS pipeline for scanning S3 uploads for malware with SQS, EC2 Auto Scaling, and Step Functions.
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Thoughts and knowledge
ALB vs. NLB: Which AWS load balancer fits your needs?
Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer share the same building blocks, but shine in different scenarios. See how they compare on protocols, performance, pricing, and security so you can pick with confidence.
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Thoughts and knowledge
Application Authentication and Authorization on AWS
Learn to implement Authentication and Authorization for your own HTTP(S)-based applications on AWS.
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Thoughts and knowledge
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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News and updates
3 Things to Know About Cloudcraft’s SOC 2 Compliance
Cybersecurity in the cloud has become all the more crucial in the past several years as cyberattacks have been on the rise. By the end of this year, cyber crime is predicted to cause over $6 trillion in damages to cloud-based companies from all over - making security compliance more imperative than ever.
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Thoughts and knowledge
Containers on AWS: ECS, EKS, and Fargate
Running containers on AWS comes down to two choices: ECS or EKS for orchestration, and EC2 or Fargate for compute. Here’s how the four combinations compare on cost, control, and day-to-day operations.
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Tutorials and how-tos
How to Create Visual Representations of Your AWS Environment
Take a look at this quick demo of Cloudcraft Live scanning. With this capability, you're able to create visual representations of your AWS environment in just a few clicks.
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Tutorials and how-tos
How to Replicate Your Data with DynamoDB Global Tables
In this post, we’ll focus on one data store that shines in multi-region architectures: Amazon DynamoDB.
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Thoughts and knowledge
Multi-Region AWS Architectures
Running an application in multiple availability zones (data centers) in a single region is a best practice when architecting in multiple regions on AWS.
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Tutorials and how-tos
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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Thoughts and knowledge
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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Tutorials and how-tos
Programming your CDN: CloudFront and Lambda@Edge
Since making their debut in the late 1990s, content delivery networks (CDNs) have become crucial in minimizing load time of your websites and applications. But that's not all! Do you know the full benefit of programming your CDN?
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Thoughts and knowledge
What Architects Need to Know About Networking on AWS
As an architect, you may not have thought too much about network management. In this blog, we'll walk you through the importance of managing your network and network structure for full control over your cloud.
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News and updates
What Architects Should Know About re:Invent 2020
During re:Invent - the annual AWS conference - a flood of news is poured out on us. Some news will change the way we architect cloud-native applications today or in the coming months. While other news is irrelevant to us. In this blog post, we'll highlight announcements from re:Invent 2020 with a high impact on cloud architects' works.
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Tutorials and how-tos
How to Become an AWS Certified Solutions Architect (SAA-C02)
Are you hoping to pass the Solutions Architect Associate exam from AWS? Take a look at this blog that will walk you through how to prepare.
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Thoughts and knowledge
What’s the CO² footprint of your architecture?
When designing an architecture, there are many important factors to consider: security, reliability, performance and costs. But what about the CO² footprint of your architecture?
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Thoughts and knowledge
Unusual AWS Architectures
AWS provides many building blocks and thorough guidance when it comes to constructing your architecture. Take a look at this blog post, that lays out four unusual AWS architectures and deals with AWS limitations in creative ways.
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Thoughts and knowledge
Comparing API Gateways on AWS
Take a look at our comparison of API gateways on AWS and decide which one is right for you!
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Thoughts and knowledge
Caching on AWS 101
Take a look at how to reduce latency and costs of your AWS infrastructure by using ElastiCache and CloudFront.
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Thoughts and knowledge
NoSQL on AWS: Document-Oriented Databases
In this article, we'll compare the database options offered by AWS and then explore all of the the document-oriented database offerings.
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Thoughts and knowledge
10 Obstacles for Lift & Shift Architectures
This blog post gives an overview of typical obstacles for lift & shift architectures and points out possible solutions.
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Postman and Cloudcraft
Part II: Generating Live Cloudcraft Architecture Diagrams in Confluence
Take your automated diagrams a step further: use AWS tags and the Cloudcraft API to generate focused architecture views and embed always-current blueprints right inside Confluence.
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Thoughts and knowledge
Storage on AWS
Block, file, or object storage? Walk through the strengths, limits, and everyday use cases of Instance Store, EBS, EFS, FSx, and S3, complete with a decision tree to guide your choice.
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Thoughts and knowledge
Messaging on AWS
Decoupling services makes your architecture easier to scale and safer to deploy. Compare SQS, SNS, Kinesis, EventBridge, and Amazon MQ side by side to find the right fit for your workload.
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Postman and Cloudcraft
Part I: Automating Image and JSON Snapshots of your AWS Accounts
This is phase one of a three phase series that will demonstrate how the Cloudcraft API can be used to programmatically snapshot your AWS applications and workloads.
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Thoughts and knowledge
Databases on AWS
From RDS and Aurora to DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and Redshift, AWS has a database for almost every workload. Here’s how to weigh your options and pick the right data store for the job.
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Thoughts and knowledge
Building with EC2: 10 Tips for the Successful Cloud Architect
Containers and serverless get the headlines, but virtual machines still do most of the heavy lifting in the cloud. Here are ten practical tips for building resilient, modern architectures on Amazon EC2.
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Release notes
Cloudcraft March 2020 Release Notes
New components, instance support changes, and more! Take a peek at the most recent updates in the Cloudcraft toolkit from March 2020.
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Thoughts and knowledge
Top 14 Must-Haves for Your AWS Architecture Checklist
Check out this blog post for a checklist of items to help validate your AWS architecture. Make sure that you haven't forgotten any important aspects!
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Release notes
Cloudcraft February 2020 Release Notes
New components, instance support changes, and more! Take a peek at the most recent updates in the Cloudcraft toolkit from February 2020.
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News and updates
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