Taking a first look at Google Cloud Architecture Diagramming Tool

In February 2022, the Google Cloud Platform team launched their Google Cloud Architecture Diagramming Tool. It looked awesome, and we’re really excited to try out the one-click deployment option. Let’s take a look.

During the week, Google Developer Advocate Priyanka Vergadia announced the launch of an architecture diagramming tool. The announcement created a buzz, especially as alternatives often require using icon sets inside more generic diagramming tools like Lucid or Visio.

Whatever your role within Technology, chances are you will have produced or referenced architectural diagrams at some point in your career. Whether you’re all-in for UML modeling, or just drawing components, or data flows, or more simpler constructs, the visualisation offered via such diagrams is often critical — and the conversations around them that they initiate are just as important. You may have just drawn them on a whiteboard, diagrams allow you to tell a story, collaborate within your team, with other stakeholders, even your customers.

The Google Cloud Architecture Diagramming Tool includes all its services, neatly categorized, and expands on the basics with some…