--- title: Cloudcraft Reviews meta_title: 'Cloudcraft Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 201 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Cloudcraft works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 201 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-07' parent_category: name: Design url: https://www.g2.com/categories/design --- # Cloudcraft Reviews **Vendor:** Cloudcraft **Category:** [Diagramming Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/diagramming) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 201 ## About Cloudcraft The #1 service for building, visualizing, and managing your cloud architecture for optimal performance. The Cloudcraft AWS Diagram Designer allows you to maximize efficiency with isometric or two-dimensional cloud architecture diagrams, all optimized for AWS with smart components. Get powerful cloud visualization right at your fingertips. ## Cloudcraft Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users rave about the **amazing visuals** of Cloudcraft, making cloud resource diagrams easy to create and understand. (1 reviews) ## Cloudcraft Reviews ### 1. Shines on AWS; Dull on other clouds **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anirudh M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Easily discover the stack when consulting on the new AWS based project. Additionally, the continuous sync allows to review the changes as made by the DevOps teams and keep the cost under control. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Biggest being that it doesn't support GCP or Azure or Hybrid cloud. On multiple engagements, I have to look for better alternatives for other clouds. Another thing that I have found in other alternatives and not in cloudcraft is visualising / discover the security rules currently applicable. **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** If you are using AWS in any way, do ensure to check them. I saw it first time in one of the demo presented by one of the customer I was consulting and have used this ever since now and then. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stack analysis & Cost Tracking ### 2. Quick and easy AWS infra mapping tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Frank V. | Director of Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** The simplicity of use. Able to quickly map and iterate on almost any AWS infra. This is ideal for explaining scaling strategies to customers and showing how certain AWS solutions affect the budget in different ways. Their budget calculator is easier to use and more visual than AWS' - even the new pricing calculator offered by AWS. We especially like the Live feature! **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Limited support for custom icon library. Wish there was a better 2D representation for maps. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Planning and mapping AWS infra. Communicating infra needs to clients. ### 3. The best way to document your AWS infrastructure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew W. | Senior Security Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Cloudcraft is really easy to use and hook up to AWS, giving live information for your AWS infrastructure in a clear and semi-automated diagraming tool, offering both 2D and 3D renderings. The interface is intuitive and fast. Track costs and resources and visualise how they interact. The support team are fantastic and are quick to respond to any ideas or issues. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** With new features coming all the time there is nothing to dislike about Cloudcraft. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking costs and usage in AWS and documenting our setup for quick reference. ### 4. Simple and Creative **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** The drag and drop options as well as the cost calculator... these are some great features that anyone who is nee to this can easily design their architecture.. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** There are only selected services available by default.. marking text heading between two connections is not available.. we have to take a separate text box and try to align the text on top of the connecting lines between two services **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** I would and already have recommended all my friends and colleagues about this **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** I usually teach my students AWS... and this tool made it easy for me to help them show the architecture examples and use mine to provide my lectures on it.. ### 5. Easy Setup and Great Visibility **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Cloudcraft was extremely easy to setup. We turned it on and could immediately see a complete overview of our infrastructure. Could filter and deep dive into pieces with ease. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Maybe it was the nature of our setup but our environment was a bit of a mess to look at. Certain pieces took up more space than others and narrowing into those smaller pieces was harder. This might be less of a shortcoming of Cloudcraft and more of how we're setup and what their typical setup is. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to view how everything in our infrastructure worked together and highlight pieces that we were missing or that we had forgotten about. ### 6. Great tool for documentation and first insight **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthias M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Cloudcraft is a great tool to get a first insight of existing environments and to present sketches to my colleagues while discussing about new projects. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** There are still some rare AWS services not supported which I need in my daily business. But all of them are already on the public available roadmap. In addition the support of other cloud providers would be awesome. **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** Just apply for a trial usage and give it a try the sync with one of your test environments. It is really easy to setup and use. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloudcraft replaced my pen and paper work when I do a first dive into an existing environment. I like getting an immediate graphical overview over the whole setup. In addition I like the sharing of blueprints, which helps me in calls with colleagues to present my ideas. **Official Response from McKinley Padier:** > Thank you for your review, Matthias! ### 7. Great Product for AWS, Lacking Some Modules & Features **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** George K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** I like how easy it is to use and how nice it looks. Perfect for an engaging presentation. I also like that you estimate how much that particular architecture will cost, it's a really easy way to demonstrate the effectiveness of a particular plan or arcitecture. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** A lot of services just have the 2d images and not full 3d objects which ruins the look and feel and also means you have to import your own sometimes. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** There were limitation as the services that it has from AWS, especially serverless services. But the diagrams I was able to produce provided a lot of value for the business. ### 8. My favourite cloud architecture tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joe M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** The style & ease of creating diagrams. They manage to get across the details while remaining stylish. Definitely helps brings some life to this type of diagrams, particularly when presenting. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** The price is a little on the steep side, which has sometimes been a blocker to me using it. **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** Just give it a go! It's incredibly easy to pick up **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloudcraft is my favourite way of creating architecture diagrams & mapping cloud infrastructure I am working on. I tend to use it in fits and starts, but when I need it I've always found it super easy to achieve what I'm trying to do ### 9. Nice and easy to use tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Timo G. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** I like the idea that I can use the tool to quickly visualize AWS infrastructure and then even export it to another favourite tool of mine which is draw.io. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Would be nice if there was a dark mode for Cloudcraft (maybe there is one and I havnt' found it yet) **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** Play around with other tools and come back to cloudcraft and see what you prefer. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes for work I need to draw the architecture of something that I've setup so I can share it in documentation with the team. This helps me quickly draw up the architecture and share it in different formats. ### 10. Very easy to use and complete **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor L. | Arquiteto de soluções, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Simple and reliable interface, I liked it a lot. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** I would like to have integrations with Terraform and CloudFormation that work in a positive way to facilitate the creation of infrastructure by code **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** You can use it without fear! **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** I managed to create models to put in the presentation of job interview projects and also of the university that added a lot in the notes. ### 11. The best visualization software for Cloud Architecture **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** César Augusto M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** It is a great tool for creating diagrams and AWS architectures online, the user interface is very simple and clean. Importing AWS from the account to Cloudcraft is very easy. The free version provides ample scope to start and implement diagrams for simple architectures. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Aligning things or placing objects so they fit is a bit difficult. **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** With the tool, they will draw AWS objects impeccably and intuitively. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** The changes in architecture throughout the team, live scanning of the account, ability to budget based on the granular size of AWS instances. ### 12. Professional infrastructure diagrams **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** The ease of use of the tool, the professional look of the finished diagrams. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Doesn't have all the components I need for the diagram prebuilt (which isn't a big deal because there are plenty of generic components that work flexibly) **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** I use this product with every single cloud based infrastructure rollout that I do. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Explaining infrastructure rollouts to upper level management and technical peers. ### 13. Great tool to help show clients and customers a complex infrastructure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marco R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Being able to automatically generate diagrams based on your AWS account is great and you can have a diagram as big as you like **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** I think the starting pro price is a little high and would also love to see more providers like Digital Ocean in the mix **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Informing shareholders and customers how our infra is setup in an easy to grasp way ### 14. Pretty Nifty For What It Is **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicholas F. | Technical Support Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** I like the ease of use and the physical view that you get, to better understand how things work. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** So far, I have not encountered anything groundbreaking that I am unable to work around. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving how to best display to other employees our systems and how it functions, how things are working, and mostly breaking things down to explain costs. **Official Response from McKinley Padier:** > Thanks for the review, Nicholas! ### 15. Great tool to show your architecture to tech and non-tech people **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Davide V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** It's easy to use, the result is clear for anyone, technical or not. I used Cloudcraft at my company when I was asked to show the architecture to the team and to the technical investors. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** I don't think there are downsides, I used it once. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved the problem to clearly show the architecture to other people, even non techincal. ### 16. Really great tool for cloud diagrams **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Artem I. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Really easy to start using, the feature that allows to import cloud architecture by just a couple of clicks is really cool. Diagrams look nice and clean. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** They are very AWS focused, and if you work with more than one cloud it might be complicated to put it all together. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Present and visualize cloud architecture for dev teams and client. ### 17. Fantastic aws infrastructure tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edward B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** I like the aws live scan of your aws inventory and will give you the cost implication of the infrastructure about to be deployed **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** I wish it could integrate aws market place additional costs **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy cloud modest in my read me files. I can display to my clients what exactly I will be deploying with cloudcraft’s rich interface ### 18. The draw of the cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leonel B. | Global PaaS Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** I like how easy it is to use the tool, which is always very complete and intuitive. The view that gives you about the costs of your infrastructure is also something incredible. We have an all-in-one tool **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** I would like it to have more integration with other tools **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud designs for development, pre-production and production environments on AWS ### 19. Best tool for plan your cloud infra structure **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paulo Henrique S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** The graphic interface is very easy and intuitive to use, like using drag and drop and the transparency of all your cogs, and you get out of the box a complete planning and drawing of your infra. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Doesn't have suport for GCP, although we use AWS, but some services are in GCP **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Planning - Finance - Training ### 20. Great tool for modeling the architecture of services, it graphically helps understanding it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Javier C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** I love the drag and drop of different resources, how to link them and put them all together in a 3D layout. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Some times it was not that intuitive for me to update the labels of items. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me define a systems architectures, easily visualize it, estimate costs and check for resources dependencies really quick. ### 21. Easy and clean **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** The best thing of cloudcraft is that you can design and customize your own architecture schemas of AWS environments in a very easily way. Also you can export them in multiple formats and get an estimated budget of the resources that you'll use. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** In general is a very good tool, maybe I miss a bit more of generic icons to complement the schemas. **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** You have a free tier for test the tool before purchase a license. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloudcraft help us to make architecture diagrams for documentation purposes. Also help us to plan future architectures. ### 22. Best tool to drive revenue using whatsapp business **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumit R. | Engineering Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Easy to use tools and quick navigations while working with it. The 3D view gives a pro look all together **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** More tools can be added and also video tutorials will help **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** Good for now. Can add more in help. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating design and architecture of our product roadmap. It increases the visibility for the team 10x ### 23. Excelent drawing tool for AWS Blueprint!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jhony L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** He is totally friendly and professional at the same time **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** I would like it to include Microsoft Azure or another cloud vendor **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me a lot to present complex architectures in a simple way. It allows me to visualize all the elements that a design requires and to identify if I need something. ### 24. Great Too, Low Barrier To Start **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rob R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** It was really easy to get started. The AWS account auto-population was the best I've seen. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** There are small cosmetic issues that still irk me: - Inability to wrap asset labels - Can't change arrow (SG/NACL) anchors - Isn't really obvious how to illustrate AZs **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** Have a walkthrough Demo with an account exec, it'll save you time in trying to figure out implementation. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our team didn't have an easy way to visualize our AWS infrastructure. **Official Response from McKinley Padier:** > Thanks for your review, Rob! ### 25. All AWS components icons available to design cloud architectures **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Swarit S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Availability of most of the AWS service icons **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** No icons available from other cloud platforms such as GCP or Azure to design cross platform architectures **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** Must try productive tool to create AWS flows **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to easily design complex microservices architecture diagrams, giving flexibility to visualize different flows & discuss with clients. ### 26. Great Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishnu V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** The UI is so smooth and easy to use.It works great for AWS visualization . **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Any Visualization for azure would be really helpful for Multi-cloud users. CloudCraft could provide more accurate Price estimation. **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** Definitely a tool to use for AWS Visualization. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the requirement for generating good looking Network and Infrastructure diagrams. ### 27. Helpful architectural tool that helped me win a key project **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Cloudcraft makes it easy to build and communicate your architecture to stakeholders. The ability to load resources with estimated costs was also a key factor in high review, as well as the direct connection to AWS. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** I'd like to see even more integration with AWS services, which I'm sure is on the roadmap. A direct cost savings recommender would also be great, as well as output to Cloud Formation templates. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloudcraft allowed me to win a project, by quickly adapting a template an presenting a pro-forma architecture to the client. ### 28. is an excellent support for cloud architecture **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** the best is its simplicity of use and the large library of objects to use, it is highly recommended for diagrams. It is by far the best tool to capture cloud diagrams at all levels of abstraction **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** the very high cost for a user who does not belong to a company and who is only learning to make cloud architecture diagrams **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me to solve the problems of not diagramming complex architectures in a diagram and being able to teach my colleagues what really exists on the platforms ### 29. Beautiful AWS Diagrams & Live Monitoring **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kris M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Easy to create super professional looking 3D architecture diagrams quickly. All the latest AWS components are available and you can size them appropriately. Although I haven't used this, the ability to export Cloudformation based on a diagram is really cool. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** The feature to scan an environment and autogenerate a diagram could use some work. While all the components are present, the layout is super messy. A lot of components that are connected or subscribed to via events are not connected, but should be. Nevertheless, easier than creating all components manually. **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** In order to justify the price, you should really take advantage of the live monitoring and budgeting features. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Disseminating architecture changes throughout the team, live scanning of account, being able to budget based on granular AWS instance sizes. **Official Response from McKinley Padier:** > Thank you for your review, Kris! ### 30. Best way to visualize my architecture **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** I really like the flexibility of being able to create drawings to communicate to my clients or prospective clients. It really helps when doing a cost analysis for a project too and put the entire architecture in front of stakeholders in an intuitive way. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** I wished it supported other clouds as much as it does AWS, if I am only an AWS user, its a boom but looking forward to multi-cloud scenario easy of use :) **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost analysis, easier communication to stakeholders and developers, better future documentation and onboarding ### 31. CloudCraft provides an easy, yet effective way of visualizing the AWS infrastructure. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Atharv K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** The icons placement and their connections are really easy to create. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** The way 3D icons look seem to be outdated to some extent. A modern implementation of icons would be super helpful. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me organize the AWS workflow efficiently. The model is really easy to explain to my colleagues. ### 32. Perfect solution for complex infrastructure visualisation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arpith P. | Senior Backend Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** I've been extensively using Cloudcraft to document and visualize complex infrastructure, data flow diagrams. The user interface is very intuitive and a delight to work upon. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** None that I can think of right now. Pretty satisfied with the product **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** App Architecture & infrastructure documentation. Proposing a new system design changes. ### 33. Amazing insights,simple dashboards **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sudhakar Kumar S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** The way cloud craft provides insights about RI utilisation, that is amazing. Many organisation would not have visibility about their RI utilisation, but with the dashboards provided by cloud craft we can see if our reserved instances are being used. Also, the way cloud craft presents anomaly detection between services which results in rise in cost can also be very helpful for debugging sudden spikes in cost. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** It would be helpful if it gives recommendation for cost effective DR setups as well. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have not used it yet. ### 34. A great tool to explain easily software architecture **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vicente G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Cloudcraft has a very friendly user interface and allows you make a great visual support of the design of software architecture **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Maybe a great feature could be add meta data in every component to document all the infrastructure (IP, Ports, domain, OS, etc) **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design and Explain software architecture ### 35. Very Good for Creating Quick Concise Diagrams **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wali R. | Lead Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** I have to create diagrams as part of architecture diagramming and this tool makes it very easy, especially for AWS. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Needs more GCP, Azure icons to be more rounded. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having to quickly create a diagram "on the fly" in a way stakeholders can understand. ### 36. Before Cloudcraft, I almost considered using paper and pencil... **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ernestas L. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Drawing AWS objects is fairly flawless and intuitive. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** I think exporting files could be easier, but generally, I'm just happy with the product as it is. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed to describe my AWS infrastructure with simple graphs that included the essential information. **Official Response from McKinley Padier:** > Ernestas, thanks for your great review! ### 37. Great tool, does the job. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarpdoruk T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Availability of different services and icons. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Sometimes you have problems with text alignment. **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** If you are not using it, you are missing a great tool. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am architecting different infrastructures. The best benefit is it can be shared with people publicly. **Official Response from McKinley Padier:** > Thanks for the great review, Sarpdoruk! ### 38. Amazing SaaS tool for your architectural design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Export to Terraform code and budgetary feature. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Limited to AWS. We mostly use Azure cloud. It would be fantastic to have it supported here in the platform. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Diagram to Code, as we have to deploy the infrastructure after designing it. ### 39. A perfect tool to outline systems **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wanny M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** user interface, really easy to use and well designed lots of components team collaboration **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** The price is not really affordable for small teams but they have a free plan and this is enough! **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing system specs with team and customers **Official Response from McKinley Padier:** > Thanks for your review! ### 40. Great tool for design and documentation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dario D. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** CloudCraft is a great tool to design and document amazing professional looking architecture diagrams, and on top of that it's really simple to use. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** It's sometimes hard to position text the way you want it, and the arrows between elements could be more customizable. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using CloudCraft to document existing architecture and present newly designed architecture to clients. The biggest benefit is the time saving which CloudCraft gives me since the UI is really easy to use. **Official Response from McKinley Padier:** > Thanks for the review, Dario! ### 41. Intuitive and full of information **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bruno C. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** The simplicity of use and pricing estimative are the absolutely the best thing when I was using the tool. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Some network resources weren't visually easy to use. **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** The free plan is perfect for small projects, but consider the Pro subscription for greater projects, it can be really helpful. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had to know in advance know much an infrastructure would cost to a possible customer, then I found CloudCraft and my life got a lot much easier. ### 42. Cloud craft review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pugazhendhi R. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Flowchart and architecture component for all IT infrastructure are available **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Direct copy paste to a presentation is not possible. **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** Linux related items are not available, good to add them **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** My IT infrastructure architecture I'm designing as of now ### 43. Great product and improving **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** I think Cloudcraft by focusing exclusively on AWS diagrams is great. For instance, the components are not merely visual blocks, they have additional semantics and behaviors. If you select the Lambda component you can specify the memory, requests and running time, and receive the cost estimate. Select an EC2, choose the instance size and see the machine specs, costs and visuals all update at once. Next step: connecting your diagram with your live AWS environment! isometric views are pretty, but flat diagrams are much more readable. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Their selection of objects is still lacking. **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** If you only draw AWS diagram, this is the choice. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Draw AWS diagram and export to terraform is fun. **Official Response from McKinley Padier:** > Thanks for your review, Lucas! ### 44. Very good visualization - Design **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarath M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Visualization is very good, especially 2d and 3d view. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Latest aws services are not available. only minimal components are available now. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is more beneficial for who creates architecture for cloud based software projects. ### 45. Great tool for students to learn and discover new things. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** AYUSHI R. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** Cloudcraft is a dynamic cloud infrastructure drawing tool that allows systems architects, developers, and technical designers to create smart diagrams of their cloud infrastructures. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** One helpful feature would be to link icons with other objects so that they are in an object group. **Recommendations to others considering Cloudcraft:** Good product to use. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving both visual understanding and implementation of our AWS architecture for documentation purposes as well as cost analysis for budgeting and proposals. ### 46. Great visualization, nice features **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** The visualizations are great for presentation and adopting white paper implementations. The ability to export to terraform is a big win! **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** I wish more clouds were supported, in particular GCP. I would also like to see a cloud agnostic k8s visualization. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost estimation and visualizations are really helpful. Also, the side benefit of communicating visualizations of a cloud architecture to other teams helps give orgs a holistic view of the stack. ### 47. Really nice **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ercan E. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** It's really easy to take control of cloud architecture. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Actually nothing, because it's working like a charm. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** You can see what you have in the cloud and it's really easy to draw architecture. ### 48. it is part of my first hand tools **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alejandro P. | Chief Technology Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** the connectivity with your existing AWS account **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** a small list of architecture samples as teamplates **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been able to analyze my environment and get better pricing of current architectures plus new designs **Official Response from McKinley Padier:** > Thank you for your review, Alejandro! - The Cloudcraft Team ### 49. I had a great experience of using CloudCraft. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Azeem M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** I like multiple things about CloudCraft. Following are the top items: 1. CloudCraft supports most of the AWS components. 2. I am able to maintain my architecture very well. 3. I am able to export the diagrams in multiple ways. **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** 1. Cloudcraft should support the resizable canvas. 2. It should support the text-based diagram creation as well. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to create my cloud-based architectures easily with inbuilt AWS components. ### 50. An extraordinary piece of software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloudcraft?** CloudCraft is simple and intuitive to use, offering great functionality and advanced services for direct use with Terraform for AWS **What do you dislike about Cloudcraft?** Unfortunately I lack direct interfaces to GCP and other templates as examples. **What problems is Cloudcraft solving and how is that benefiting you?** In addition to the excellent visualisation of infrastructures, we were able to achieve rapid prototyping using terraform exports. 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