Cloudcraft – Architect and budget cloud infrastructure

[CapriciousCptl]

Cloudcraft is used by a tons of AWS consultants. I think that's the disconnect seeing a lot of comments here, people spending less than $ thousands/year on AWS just aren't their target customers. Meanwhile, Cloudcraft is minting money.

[nikolay]

If it wasn't $50/month, they'd have made tons of money from me without using it. But I had it for a few months and simply canceled. You can't have a service for $49 when a whole server is $5 nowadays and GitHub is $7/month. Plus, when you can do it with code like with this [0] too, why use a GUI/WUI?

[0]: https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/

[sabalaba]

Trust me, they don't care that you're gone. If you aren't willing to pay $50 / month, you're not their target customer.

[blackoil]

If they reduce price to $10/m they'll need 5x customers to reach same revenue, as there are some variable costs, to reach same profit they'll need even more customers. Most of these new customers wouldn't be power users so they'll have a diverse set of expectations / requirements from the software.

Not sure about the no. $50 but it may be a conscious and valid choice.

[UMetaGOMS]

Draw.io does everything I need for free, and is about 80% "good enough" in terms of output quality. I would love to use this tool for the aesthetic benefits, but would struggle to justify even $10 for the sake of ~1 diagram per month.

[gscho]

I really enjoy using this product for creating architecture diagrams! I would never use it to creat budgets though. I hope it expands to other clouds and frameworks and then I would pay for it over lucidchart.

[nullpage]

I've enjoyed playing around with this product, but I wish there was a tier between free and pro that added infinite drawing without such a steep price. I'm not really interested in the sync stuff, but would happily pay a little to add infinite grid to the features otherwise included in the free tier.

[dijit]

I actually love this tool, but i wish it supported google cloud also.

[timwis]

I used this once and couldn’t believe there was no way to make it not 3-D. At least not that I could figure out.

[jk563]

At the top right (near the "export" button) is a toggle to go between 3D and 2D.

[esoterae]

This needs to be able to read my terraform statefiles

[devonkim]

Hashicorp’s hosted Terraform service has cost estimation built in nowadays and you can setup Sentinel rules to keep people from deploying infrastructure changes that are beyond a certain cost ceiling (or below)