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I've generated an architecture diagram of one of my AWS solutions, and this
again shows that

auto-generating diagrams is pretty useless
a lot of the "magic" of AWS solutions is in the configurations and typical
architecture diagrams are bad at visualizing this.

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:39:09 UTC♥ 28↻ 2

2 replies

I'd say my preferred way is creating a C4 model System Context diagram
(https://c4model.com/#SystemContextDiagram) manually for a high-level
explanation of what the solution does, and then jump directly into the
infrastructure code.

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:59:31 UTC♥ 3

Replying to @coderbyheart

Especially if using AWS CDK, which allows to structure AWS resources much
better, i find these resource-level diagrams pretty useless. What do you think?

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:41:05 UTC♥ 3↻ 1