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by washbasin

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Thanks for this. Another tool in the box is always welcome. We desperately need more competitors in this arena. Please take this as loving feedback. We need more of this! This use case is very dear to my heart. I have tracked over a dozen products that claim to do what Atlasphere is offering to do, and they all seem to fall short.
The most common issues are:
- They rely on https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams which has simply not gotten any attention for a long time. It's too out-of-date to be useful, and any issue with rendering gets a response to "go use graphviz instead"
- When pointing these tools to anything moderately complicated, they implode or create non-nonsensical diagrams. Think: VPC Peering, VPC Security Groups, multi-account resources.
- They get the cloud resources OK, but neglect primitives like routing and policies that are just as important.
Just looking at the examples on the website: Claude Code can do this natively. Just a consideration.
I will also echo what others have said: allowing another account access to ours is a non-starter, even if Read-Only. It needs to use a security principal we have complete control over.
I can't tell from the project page what IAM permissions are in your "Read-only IAM role". That's something I would also need to know, regardless of how it is deployed.
I can tell from this post and the site that this is a labor of love, and I hope you keep up the good work. Like I said, this is an area where we need more, better tools. I want projects like this to succeed.
PS: Awesome name

by sudosteph

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Hey, First things - I used to work for AWS, unless your job is more of an evangelist thing, or unless the policy is changed, you need get approval to share side projects. So don't get in trouble over this!
Personally, I am not comfortable with cross-account access from a stranger, even if it's read only. I feel like I should be able to run something locally on my side to gather the data so I can pick and choose what actually needs diagrams
Sounds fun though!

by overflowy

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Showing the pricing section after downloading the app and signing up is a dark pattern, I suggest including a pricing section on the website.

by smcleod

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Hello, is the source available for inspecting somewhere? It looks interesting but I wouldn't trust running something with this level of access that I couldn't inspect the source of / run myself.

by NickNaraghi

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This is brilliant. I've been really excited about Jack Dorsey's "From Hierarchy to Intelligence"[0] and I think what you've got here is a pretty important piece of the puzzle.
[0] block.xyz/inside/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence