Every cloud team has one. A shared folder labeled "Architecture Diagrams." Neatly exported from Lucidchart. Updated… last month? Last quarter?
And when incidents hit, teams turn to it like a Bible. The only problem? It's already out of date.
The Day a Static Diagram Failed Production
A fast-growing SaaS company recently experienced a major production outage. Their DevOps team jumped into action, pulling up a Visio export from two weeks earlier.
But the diagram showed services that had been deprecated. It missed a new microservice deployed last Friday. And it certainly didn't reflect the IAM rollback from the night before.
The result? Confusion. Delay. And 45 minutes wasted on a ghost path that no longer existed.
Static Cloud Diagrams Don't Work in a Dynamic World
Architecture Drift Is Inevitable
Cloud infrastructure is elastic. You scale up. Spin down. Refactor. And every one of those changes makes a static diagram less reliable.
They Offer Zero Operational Context
A PNG file can't show you which node is overloaded, which region is lagging, or what changed since yesterday.
They're Siloed and Subjective
Dev sees one version, Ops another. Leadership is shown something "simplified." Everyone's guessing, and nobody's aligned.
And in an outage, misalignment = minutes lost.
Why Real-Time Topology Is the New Standard
Cloudshot was built to kill the static diagram. Instead, it delivers a live, always-updating view of your entire infrastructure—across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Unified Cloud Map
See VMs, load balancers, APIs, databases, and IAM policies—all in one real-time interface.
Drift Detection and Config Change Tracking
You're alerted when something changes—and shown exactly what and where.
Role-Based Views
Dev sees service dependencies. SecOps sees access policies. Finance sees cost overlays. Everyone speaks the same map.
The Best Engineering Teams Know Their MTTR
Because they don't just fix issues—they improve how they fix them.
If your team is still estimating resolution time in war rooms and writing postmortems without proof, then maybe it's time to make MTTR visible—and actionable.