Draw AWS diagrams with your team in real-time
Draw AWS diagrams with your team in real-time
Draw AWS diagrams in minutes with your team. Collaborate together at the same time on an endless canvas without any limits. Choose from hundreds of AWS official icons available on Sketchboard.
Brainstorm on your AWS diagrams with your teammates. Add comments on your diagrams, integrate your Slack channels to the Sketchboard, and take your AWS Architecture to the next level.
Get the idea out to focus on executing it. When you have a picture in place, you have already started.
How to Make AWS Diagrams
How to Make AWS Diagrams
The context-sensitive menu on Sketchboard is a quick way to add or switch shapes.
☆ Double click empty space on the board.
☆ Type 'aws2' on the search field to see all AWS service and resource icons. To find legacy AWS icons type 'aws_'.
☆ Select an AWS icon to be added on board with your mouse or by pressing the space key.
☆ Switch shapes in place from the context menu by selecting an element.
☆ Connect the shapes by using Sketchboard arrows between AWS icons.
The context-sensitive menu on Sketchboard is a quick way to add or switch shapes.
☆ Double click empty space on the board.
☆ Type 'aws2' on the search field to see all AWS service and resource icons. To find legacy AWS icons type 'aws_'.
☆ Select an AWS icon to be added on board with your mouse or by pressing the space key.
☆ Switch shapes in place from the context menu by selecting an element.
☆ Connect the shapes by using Sketchboard arrows between AWS icons.
Mix and match AWS infrastructure with flexible diagramming
Mix and match AWS infrastructure with flexible diagramming
Don’t restrict your thinking. Let your ideas flow and combine AWS Infrastructure drawing with different kind of ideas together on the same board. Sketchboard’s diagramming tool is built for flexibility in software teams.
Apply any color to an AWS icon to differentiate shapes from the official style. Change the design as you go and split diagrams to different boards for more details. Export your boards as JPEG, SVG, PNG, or PDF.
Latest AWS icons available on Sketchboard
Uncover your diagramming potential with hundreds of AWS official icons. Sketchboard's AWS cheatsheet shows a list of the latest AWS official icons. Use the icon name in the Sketchboard's search bar to quickly add it to your AWS diagram.
Amazon Web Services offer a broad set of products to support scalable and reliable software development. Explore the links of the AWS service icons to learn more about specific Amazon services on Amazon pages.
AWS Product Categories
Analytics
AWS has a wide range of services for analytics such as Amazon Athena which helps you to make instant data queries with results in seconds or Amazon Kinesis that enables you to do real-time analysis of video and data streams.
On Sketchboard, show all AWS icons in this category using the search field with arch_analytics
Application Integration
Amazon offers application integration products so that you can integrate serverless applications and distributed systems with ease. Some examples are Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) which is a fully managed messaging service, and Amazon EventBridge, a serverless event bus that takes care of event ingestion and delivery, security, authorization, and error handling.
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AR & VR
As augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) capabilities increase, AWS introduces Amazon Sumerian to help you build real-world AR, VR, and 3D applications rapidly with minimal domain-specific expertise.
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Blockchain
AWS is a highly trusted cloud service provider for blockchain and ledger technology workloads of many enterprises. Purpose-built products of AWS Blockchain open up many possibilities such as a centralized ledger database with Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) or a multi-party, fully managed blockchain network with Amazon Managed Blockchain.
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Business Applications
More and more organizations of all sizes use the cloud for available, flexible and agile services. AWS provides multiple solutions for companies to run their software on the cloud such as Amazon WorkMail, a secure, managed business email and calendar service, or Amazon WorkDocs, an enterprise document storage and sharing service.
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Compute
AWS Compute products provide processing power to allow you to carry out computational abilities via a series of instructions used by applications and systems. A wide range of AWS Compute products enables you to have virtual service in the cloud (by Amazon EC2) or run your code without thinking about servers (by Amazon Lambda).
On Sketchboard, show all AWS icons in this category using the search field with arch_compute.
Containers
AWS is a very popular choice for many customers to run containers in a secure, reliable and scalable way. In fact, Amazon claims that 80% of all containers in the cloud run on AWS. One advantage of AWS Containers is that you get to choose which container orchestrator to have: Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
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AWS Cost Management
AWS Cost Management Solutions bring instruments to manage your resources by taking your specific needs into account. Your cost & usage data can be analyzed and visualized and precisely chargeback to the right unit. As an example, one of the products in this category, AWS Budgets offers flexible budgeting and forecasting to improve your planning and control your costs.
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Customer Enablement
AWS Customer Enablement services are designed to increase your migration speed and other cloud related team capabilities. By using these AWS services such as AWS Managed Services or AWS IQ, you can leverage highly experienced experts in the cloud industry for your particular needs such as starting a project, optimizing costs or more.
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Database
Amazon provides one of the broadest selection of purpose-built databases where you can choose from 15+ database engines. Relational databases like Amazon Aurora for traditional applications, or key-value databases like Amazon DynamoDB for high-traffic web apps or e-commerce systems are only a part of the wide selection of AWS Database solutions.
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Developer Tools
A wide range of tools for developers are available in the AWS Developer Tools category. These tools help you to boost your software development speed and integrate with AWS with ease. Building, testing and deploying become easier with services such as AWS CodeDeploy which provides automated deployments and uptime management solutions, or AWS Device Farm that supports testing IOS, Android, and web apps.
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End-User Computing
As the world becomes more distributed with remote work, organizations require more agile solutions to the dynamic needs of the human resource. Therefore AWS offers End-User Computing (EUC) products for you to manage the high demand flexibility of your users. Amazon Workspaces for desktop-as-a-service or Amazon Work-link for secure mobile access are good examples to try out.
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Game Tech
The majority of the world’s biggest public game companies are using Amazon Web Services. AWS has also a product category to accommodate game-tech specific needs such as Amazon GameLift for dedicated cloud servers to boost multiplayer experiences or Amazon Lumberyard, a game engine without any seat fees.
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Internet of Things
As the IoT industry is expanding rapidly, billions of devices all around the world provide countless possibilities to explore the full potential of IoT. AWS offers various IoT related services such as AWS IoT Core for smooth connection between devices and cloud applications, or AWS IoT Events for effortless detection and response to IoT events, and many others.
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Machine Learning
AWS has a very ambitious goal of enabling every developer with machine learning. With a broad group of ML services supported by the cloud infrastructure, Amazon is definitely one of the key solution providers in this field with countless possibilities. For example, the flagship service of this category, Amazon SageMaker, provides a comprehensive package where data scientists and developers can use from the data preparation phase until the deployment of high-quality machine learning (ML) models.
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Management & Governance
AWS Management and Governance products bring a possibility where companies don’t need to do trade-offs between innovation and control over costs and security. Services such as AWS Control Tower provides built-in governance control of multi-account AWS environments, or AWS CloudFormation provides provision resources and applications that meet your policies.
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Media Services
AWS has a very flexible set of services for live and on-demand video workflows. Integrated with AWS storage, networking, and compute services; you can scale up globally without thinking about maintaining video hardware. Build engaging live streaming with Amazon Interactive Video Service, or let Amazon Kinesis Video Streams capture, process, and store video streams for analytics and machine learning.
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Migration & Transfer
Amazon is aiming to make migration as smooth as possible to get the business outcome quickly. Bringing many years of experience, AWS provides a comprehensive set of services such as AWS Database Migration Service to migrate your databases to AWS with minimal downtime, and CloudEndure Migration to automate your mass migration to the AWS cloud.
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Mobile
Front-End Web & Mobile services on AWS provide various options for developers to build, test and deploy an application with minimum friction. Products such as AWS Amplify bring the possibility to scale up in an easy, secure and reliable way. As developers can utilize existing iOS/Android IDEs and web frameworks, those products also accelerate the development process.
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Networking & Content Delivery
AWS Networking and Content Delivery services aim to make sure that any kind of workload you have runs in the cloud without any problem. AWS is a feasible option if the security, availability and performance consistency is important for your networking services. Among many other things, you can use Elastic Load Balancing to scale your network design, or AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) for isolated cloud resources.
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Quantum Technologies
Research shows that quantum computers have the potential to solve some of the impossible or very difficult problems for classical computers. To provide a development environment for quantum researchers and developers, AWS introduces Amazon Braket.
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Robotics
As robots are becoming more popular in many fields, they get more complex with many sophisticated functions. AWS RoboMaker in this category provides a complete solution for simulating, testing and deploying robotic applications.
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Satellite
Satellites are becoming more crucial in many use cases such as surface imaging, communications and weather forecasting. Amazon created AWS Ground Station as a fully managed cloud service where you can control data from satellites and process it without building a ground station infrastructure.
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Security, Identity, & Compliance
To secure your workload in the cloud, AWS offer various solutions in different sub categories such as data protection (e.g. AWS Key Management Service), infrastructure protection (e.g. AWS Shield for DDoS protection), detection (e.g. Amazon Inspector for analyzing application security) and many others.
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Storage
AWS provides several services for organizations that are looking for object, file and block storage as well as backup, data transfer and edge computing services. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), one of the popular AWS services, is used for object storage with high levels of security, availability and performance. Other storage services such as AWS Backup and AWS Storage Gateway upgrade organizations' storage capabilities to the next level.
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