AWS Architecture Data Visualizer

SmartDraw's AWS Diagram data visualizer allows you to import your Amazon Web Services information and automatically generate a diagram of your AWS architecture.

Watch the video to see how you can use the AWS diagram visualizer.

You can choose between two ways of connecting to AWS.

You can use an access key (Secret Key) for easy sharing across all your users, or setup an IAM Role with temporary credentials per user for greater security.

To authenticate using a Secret Key, you'll need to get your Access Key Token and AWS Secret Token from your AWS admin and enter it into SmartDraw. Choose your region and click Import to generate your visual.

To authenticate using an IAM Role, you'll need an AWS admin to create a role that gives SmartDraw and your external ID temporary credentials to log into an AWS account. The external ID can be given to your admin by copying it from SmartDraw. It provides an extra layer of security to ensure it is a known SmartDraw user logging in. Just follow the steps outlined here.

You'll need to get an ARN code from your admin to finalize the import. Once you're ready, you can choose your region and click Import to generate your visual.

Once your diagram is generated, you'll see a visual of your VPCs, Virtual Private Clouds, in the region you selected. Under each VPC, you'll see groupings for your Availability Zones and subnets. The symbols within the subnets represent all of your resources.