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A service that answers "can these two talk?" in two clicks
An AWS network visualization and reachability service born from daily work (in progress)
- AWS
- Visualization
- SaaS
- BYOC
- CloudFormation
- AI
In one line
I am turning the manual work of tracing AWS traffic paths in the console into a service where you pick two resources on a diagram and get an answer.
Background
Each traffic request at work meant following security groups, routes, and firewalls by hand in the console. I had automated part of that with internal Python tools, and this service brings that experience to a screen. It is still in development.
Judgment
After more than two months of development with Codex, I decided to start over with Claude Code, keeping only the product knowledge and design assets.
I judged that rebuilding on what I had learned about the product would be better for quality and speed than fixing the existing implementation.
What I did
Goals
- Show complex, connected AWS resources as a diagram
- Determine whether two selected resources can communicate, and which security policy allows or blocks it
- Final scope: connection and lookup across multiple AWS accounts and all regions within an organization or registered by customers, reachability checks, and a history of changes
Structure
- BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud, installed in the customer’s environment): the customer runs a provided CloudFormation template (a blueprint that creates AWS resources) in their own AWS account, and the required permissions, resources, and services are set up automatically.
- After setup, the first-run screen creates administrator and regular user accounts, and registers the AWS accounts to collect from.
- An AI model is planned as an analysis aid, and the goal is to offer this as SaaS.