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"Hello AWS, why is there this subnet and who added it?" I'm seriously curious how is asking a chatbot better than looking at a well designed diagram...

• loa_in_ 3y ago
  You're very lucky if there's an up to date diagram and you got confidence in it's correctness.
  • throwaway290 3y ago
    Like a hand-made diagram? That's a blast from the past... I mean a diagram generated directly from your actual infra using the same APIs as the chatbot
    • statictype 3y ago
      Are there existing tools today that can generate a diagram frim the output of the AWS API?
      • tolidano 3y ago
        There's this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/workload-discovery-on-aws/architecture-overview.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/workload-discov... And also CloudMapper, CloudCraft, Hava, Lucid, Hyperglance, Cloudviz, and Cloudockit. So, a resounding yes.
        • throwaway290 3y ago
          Not to say there couldn't be better tooling for infra diagram generation. I don't know anything open source and cross-provider, I wish someone worked on that. Hiding the grand overview from the user behind a bot with a fuzzy interface just seems counter productive.