AWS icons 2.0

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a leading cloud computing platform, that provides a wide variety of services for its clients. These include computing power, storage, databases, machine learning, analytics, AI services, networking, and other options, delivered over the Internet. A platform provides reliable global infrastructure and is available around the world ensuring security using encryption and access control methods, scalability, flexibility, cost-efficiency, speed, and agility.

Amazon Web Services is a scalable low-cost infrastructure platform and its services are ideal for IT developers, businesses, and other stakeholders. AWS services help businesses to manage their resources and costs efficiently, support IoT applications, can scale up or down and so perfectly operate in conditions of growing or fluctuating demands for bandwidth, and provide the ability to create a hybrid cloud environment.

AWS services meet the needs of organizations of all sizes and are easy to use regardless of your profession, experience, or role, they equally suit professionals and beginners, IT directors, system administrators, large companies or individual users. Besides, Amazon provides a wide variety of choices for migration, from the local system or another private or public cloud service provider. The services communicate with user applications and automatically evaluate demand for further efficiency. All this makes AWS services incredibly attractive and that’s why they are used by many large companies to design, host, and scale their applications in the cloud providing reliability and security without any limitations.

Visualizing Cloud Infrastructure with AWS Diagrams

AWS diagrams are an efficient visual way to plan, design, structure, and document systems and applications built on AWS cloud services, as well as represent and audit the Amazon Web Services architecture before and after deployment. They give a clear understanding of the architecture of AWS-based solutions and the interaction of AWS services within a system using the specialized AWS icons and connections. Visualizing the cloud infrastructure and data flow between different services, designing efficient cloud solutions and projects, and modeling and implementing AWS cloud-based applications is easy with AWS diagrams.

AWS infrastructure is the backbone of the network, that is why it is important to design AWS infrastructure diagram thoughtfully and carefully. Communication with all stakeholders, team members and leadership, is critical when working with complex systems. AWS architecture diagrams are a convenient way to communicate and collaborate with the team for successful cloud deployment, maintain and analyze the architecture and AWS services you subscribe to, and represent how various AWS resources are configured and connected to achieve required goals and functionalities. They help to prove compliance, identify potential issues and bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and areas for optimization performance within the infrastructure, troubleshoot faster, and provide security, fault-tolerance, and cost optimization.

Example 1. AWS Architecture Diagram — Modern Data Warehouse on AWS

Cloud Service Models

Currently, cloud services are top-rated in business. For many companies, it is profitable, secure, and fast to move their IT infrastructure to the cloud and operate there renting the corresponding services. There are three main cloud service models:

1. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
2. Platform as a service (PaaS)
3. Software as a service (SaaS)

The option when the company rents the necessary facilities from the cloud service provider, such as computing resources, data storage, or networking, corresponds to IaaS, which provides high-level APIs to access required resources. Using IaaS is a great cost-reduction strategy for businesses because helps them to avoid expenses for purchasing costly infrastructure and maintaining it. The cloud service provider makes all this instead of you and provides ready secure infrastructure. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most popular IaaS, which offers flexibility and more or less capacities can be rented according to your needs.

Platform as a service (PaaS) is a platform with predefined settings set by the cloud provider for various tasks. The operating system and databases are provided. Cloud services can also be bought in the amount you require. This model offers a simple and scalable platform for building applications, saves clients' time in setting up the system, streamlines workflows, and enhances coordination.

Software as a service (SaaS) is a ready-made for using software, which doesn’t involve a download or installation. The common examples are mail service, scheduler, website designer, CRM system, etc.

Understanding AWS Icons: A Comprehensive Guide

An AWS diagram is created using the specialized symbols designed by Amazon. These include AWS service icons, containers icons, resource icons indicating resources used to perform a wide range of AWS services like computing, storage, networking, database, machine learning, analytics, and many more, general services like the Internet, multimedia, e-mail, etc., and also icons of other components. The AWS symbols are grouped in logical containers on the diagram and connected by arrows or lines showing relationships. Each group is marked with a small icon in the upper left corner that indicates its type.

AWS symbols help to architect efficiently. Being standardized and universally recognized icons, they help to create architecture diagrams understandable for all stakeholders, describe the services, and show the structure of the systems and applications built on AWS cloud services. AWS icons provide interoperability and help in creating clear and visual representations of cloud infrastructure. The resulting AWS diagrams are ideal to be used in technical documentation, presentations, and reports, to communicate efficiently in teams about the AWS architecture, structure, and components of AWS-based solutions.

Amazon provides various AWS services and helps you to design, plan, host, audit, and analyze your applications and solutions without investing in infrastructure. AWS services cover wide range of functionalities and infrastructure, and AWS icons are classified correspondingly. AWS symbols are divided in numerous categories, like analytics, business applications, compute, database, Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile, security, storage, and many others.

Each category is colored in with a different color: orange, blue, green, red, etc. This makes these diagrams easily recognizable from a quick look and provides you with the possibility to create diagrams on different levels of detail.

Example 2. AWS Diagram in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Creating Efficient AWS Diagrams in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Drawing an AWS Diagram is easy using special design software like ConceptDraw DIAGRAM enhanced with the highly functional AWS Architecture Diagrams solution based on the library of Amazon Web Services® for diagramming cloud architectures. You can start by creating groups and containers, then select categories and add service icons and resources. All AWS architecture icons are easily drag-and-dropped from the libraries into your diagram without the need of self-drawing.

AWS Architecture Diagrams solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM contains 20 stencils libraries with 358 objects, which correspond to the main categories of AWS simple icons:

Example 3. AWS Icons 2.0

You can start from a blank sheet or use one of the included samples or examples as the base for your own AWS diagram. Drag and drop the desired symbols from the libraries to your document, group, and organize in a corresponding way using containers and other elements to represent your environment or AWS architecture accurately. Add the lines and arrows to show the logical relationships between resources, clarify interaction among different AWS services and resources, and show the flow of information.

You can visualize both the current state of your cloud environment in architecture diagram AWS and the planned future state on one page or different pages of one document. It is also possible to create and save multiple views, update and improve your architecture as time goes on, remove unnecessary details or add important clarifications to increase performance, provide optimization, reduce downtime, and achieve alignment.

You can also add any required metadata in your cloud architecture diagram, such as, for example, IP addresses or any other to make it more complete and understandable. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM AWS network diagram creator supports you in modifying your diagram any time you need and helps to keep it up-to-date, especially when some changes are implemented in your infrastructure. AWS diagrams help to identify weaknesses in your network and make a plan for its optimization, evaluate changes, and compare current state with future one, export your diagrams in different formats, share and communicate with your team and other stakeholders, and take feedback to improve and streamline processes.

Benefits of Using ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Cloud architecture diagrams are critical for understanding and communicating complex system designs. Being well-designed they are especially efficient and provide an expected result. AWS Architecture Diagram solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM provides the top diagramming AWS drawing tools to design exceptional architecture diagrams and includes the icons of Amazon notation. These icons are suggested to be used when creating Architecture diagrams describing the use of Amazon Web Services or Amazon Cloud Services. The samples included in the AWS Architecture Diagrams solution can be used as templates to get started quickly.

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM vector graphic software as AWS diagram builder helps to:

1. Create Web Application Architecture
2. Architect infrastructure based on AWS® (Amazon Web Services)
3. Design application services based on AWS® (Amazon Web Services)
4. Create AWS network diagram
5. Design auto-scalable architecture
6. Design for elastic compute cloud
7. Illustrate whitepapers and presentations
8. Create vector graphics files

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM application makes your diagramming experience much more pleasant, saves significantly your time and effort, and helps to avoid frustration and achieve the best results. Besides, it provides wide export and import capabilities. The file compatibility due to the export in common formats ensures efficient collaboration with all stakeholders.

Example 4. AWS Diagram — SharePoint Server Reference Architecture for Public Facing Website Scenario

AWS Diagrams Examples

AWS Architecture Diagrams solution for multi-purpose ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software provides a large variety of ready-made professionally designed samples and examples. Some of them you can observe on this page and all variety is available from ConceptDraw STORE. These professionally designed AWS cloud diagram, AWS network diagram, and AWS architecture diagram examples show the solution's power, help you to get inspired, and suit perfectly for a quick start, as the base for your own diagrams.

AWS diagrams help to plan AWS architectures and AWS systems efficiently to further implement them correctly, show topology and used AWS services. They are efficient in providing fault tolerance, identifying points of error and troubleshooting faster, maintaining compliance, planning ways for cost optimization, and providing security. All kinds of visual content designed in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software including AWS Diagrams suit perfectly to be used in dashboards, presentations, reports, whitepapers, posters, and other technical documentation.

Conclusion

AWS diagrams are an efficient way to explain the infrastructure, topology, components, structure, and interactions within the AWS environment. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software saves you time and effort and helps to avoid frustration by providing hundreds of predesigned AWS symbols. These symbols help to model the system architecture, develop AWS-based solutions, describe AWS services, visualize the cloud infrastructure and deployment, and create AWS diagrams of various types efficiently from scratch or based on the ready-made templates. The designed diagrams can be used to generate high-quality documentation, technical materials, datasheets, posters, and presentations, show them in the presentation mode or share in MS PowerPoint format, perform security audits and expedite engineering onboarding.

Being an easy-to-use visual design application, ConceptDraw DIAGRAM with its AWS architecture diagram tools helps to create detailed and always up-to-date AWS diagrams with minimal effort and share them in order to document your cloud system or AWS-based application, communicate and collaborate efficiently with a team and other stakeholders, plan budget, optimize costs, provide security, and other initiatives with ease. These diagrams have a clear and expressive design and help IT teams, developers, architects, business leaders, and other stakeholders to understand the complex architecture and connections within an AWS environment easily and correctly. Use the Page Navigator for a multipage document. Get the most out of your AWS experience with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM AWS diagram generator just today.