Quick start based on a short questionnaire. Lucidchartįree version: Yes, up to three documents Pros Quick start that gets you straight to the tool with little account setup requirements make this a great option for putting together a quick and easy cloud diagram. Highly customizable WYSIWYG interface with little friction. The icon library is not as robust as other options, missing some native icons for Google Cloud, Alibaba, and others. You’ll find images of, well, flow charts in an “advanced” section. The interface at times can be a bit busy with icons that are not particularly well organized. You can also export your diagrams to Trello, Github, Dropbox, and Gitlab. It has a lot of seamless export options, including vector graphics format for design editing. Seamless auto-cropping tool on export based on object grouping. It also has quick sharing options for Google Drive and OneDrive. It has a search function for common shapes/icons. You’re asked three quick questions and then taken straight to several template options. Draw.ioĭraw.io is a go-to WYSIWYG cloud diagramming tool. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the top cloud diagramming tools, as well as some of their pros and cons-and our less-than-five-minute layout challenge result. The five-minute experiment did not include the sign-up or download period. Others… well, not so much, but we can see where they excel and why they’re good at what they do. Some turned out just as comprehensive as you’d expect to see on a slideshow. (It doesn’t include Visio, for example, which we still hear is wonderful.)Īs a thought experiment, we challenged ourselves to diagram the same layout in each tool in five minutes or less. This list is not exhaustive and has some bias toward tools that are quickly accessible. And we wanted to share how we felt about some of these top tools. We’ve taken a look at many of these-some more bespoke and others incredibly popular internally. And many of them are free, or have enough free features, to make your life a whole lot easier. Flow charts have filled powerpoint slideshows for decades and there’s no reason you should feel allergic to them, even if it’s cloud architecture that you’re trying to explain.Īlso, fortunately, there are an enormous number of tools out there to help you diagram your cloud architecture. You’ll probably find, instead, that a room of people watching a presentation (or your shared screen on Zoom) are going to have a much easier time understanding you if you just have a diagram. And, well, a picture is worth a thousand words anyway-even if those words have at least 5 syllables each. There’s a lot of terms to keep track of that can all feel a bit like an alphabet soup after a while. Try explaining your entire cloud infrastructure aloud in a few sentences to a room full of not-quite-as-technical-as-you team members.
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