@dazzag24 You can! Perspective discovers resources within your account(s) regardless of what created them.
There's no need to have used any IaC tooling (although that's still a good idea) to generate the diagrams.
My team at #AWS just released an update to AWS Perspective, our tool to automatically visualise your #Cloud workloads.
This new release focuses heavily on cost related features that allow you to better understand your cloud billing.
Check it out!
https://t.co/3SGVHiYYs1
There's also a new Grouped Resources option when building your architecture diagrams. It lets you remove edges and see a less cluttered view of your workload.
@aDataArchitect We've had similar feedback about adding your own metadata and groupings to the diagrams.
Please feel free to raise a feature request with your use cases if this is something you'd like to see!
https://t.co/qHdQkQ0bEY
My team at #AWS just published AWS Perspective, a tool to automatically visualise your Cloud workloads and the relationships within as up-to-date architecture diagrams.
Perspective can also visualise indicative costing data for your workloads.
https://t.co/356C2Uduly
@0xdabbad00 Absolutely. We've a lot of ideas in this space. Flow logs would also allow us to do fun things with the edges like enhance thickness or similar depending on traffic. Highlighting security diffs like you mention is also something we've spoken about.
@0xdabbad00 We're also using cytoscape. This is still a UI/UX challenge. We've intentionally tried to coax users to focus on a particular resource and expand the graph from there, rather than say "show me all the things" and narrow down. We are also working on automatically collapsing etc.
@elrowan It's not as complicated as it looks, but your point is valid! We use Neptune to maintain a graph of all the resources and relationships -- that's what we use to explore the diagrams.
The biggest challenges have been in UI/UX and we haven't solved them all.
@0xdabbad00 We rely heavily on AWS Config as a data source but supplement it with our own data where resources are not supported. Likewise we use Config relationship data (and more) to draw edges on the graph. We're investigating more options like parsing VPC flow logs right now.
@tmclaughbos Unfortunately not, but we've had a lot of interest in this space.
One of our initial design principles was for Perspective to be a "read only" tool (but Perspective does write things to itself).
Feel free to add an item for investigation to our backlog:
https://t.co/WX1IxoeSS2
@ShortJared You can import multiple accounts/regions into a single Perspective installation and visualise the resources within.
Unfortunately we don't (yet) visualise cross account relationships.