From the course: Building a Cloud Architecture Diagram

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Architecture diagrams

Architecture diagrams

- [Instructor] When we look at the architecture diagrams defined in the UML cannon, remember that component, and deployment diagrams are considered architecture, and this is also a standard that is morphed as the public cloud has taken over most IT designs for most organizations. When we look at deployment diagrams, this is going to represent the system hardware, the virtual hardware and the associated software components. Even that's tricky because the software components might be a cloud service such as a load balancer, and what we start seeing is that just defining a deployment or a component view isn't enough. We usually need more details. So the architecture diagram typically combines the component view and deployment details. A component diagram is visualizing the physical components or the virtual components that are hosted on physical hardware. Again, in the cloud, we're dealing typically with virtual resources.…

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