Map My Cloud Infrastructure

Question

Hi all Mapping a Cloud Infrastructure is nothing but showing your all (specially AWS and Azure) Cloud Resources (including Virtual Machines Load Balancer Virtual Network (VPC/VNET) Subnets Internet Gateways etc.) diagrammatically. If we able to map this all cloud resources and also able to show connections between all this resources then it will be easy to identify difference between suggested architecture and developed one. This mapping will also help to System Administrator as well as to Cloud Architect to get overall idea of current live environment and it will easy to debug some issues by viewing cloud mapping. This is current industry need and i'm looking for this and also searching is there any organization/Company working for Mapping Cloud Infrastructure. Please do suggest if any third party Software/Solutions/Web Portals are available for above purpose.

Nitin Patil · Answer

Thanks to Anoop Khandelwal for his reply on # Quora . Well as per the Industry requirementsAWS guys come up with a new service known as AWS Config. It tells us about how the resources are related to one another and how they were configured in the past so that you can see how the configurations and relationships change over time.It notifies you of resource configurations changes. AWS Config show you how your AWS Resources(VPCsELBsEC2 InstancesSubnetsNetwork ACLs etc) are related to one another. The main advantages of AWS Config are- As the demand of your application running on AWS Resources are changing(Scaling UP/DOWN) you need to create/delete/update AWS Resources as well.AWS Config let you know about the resource mis-configurations(if any) and you can have a better resource administration over them. If you use multiple AWS resources which are dependent on each other a change in the configuration of one resource might have unintended consequences on related resources. Using AWS Config you can view how the resources you want to modify is related to other resources and see the impact of your change. It continuously monitor the configurations of your resources and evaluate these configurations for potential security weaknesses. If your work requires frequent audits and you need to use historical configurations of your AWS ResourcesAWS Config will help you out.