Interactive Cloud Network Visualization for Architecture Bottlenecks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of cloud computing systems face difficulty in understanding the architectural layout and network relationships within their private networks, making it impractical to identify optimization opportunities, security vulnerabilities, and traffic bottlenecks.
Innovation Solution
A visualization component in the cloud computing system generates interactive visualizations of computing resources and network relationships, allowing users to dynamically interact with and understand the overall architecture of their private networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cloud providers maintain networks of data centers with interconnected computing devices, then computing resources and services can be provided to support user applications, but it becomes difficult for users to understand the architectural layout and network relationships between computing resources
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a visual copy or representation of the physical network architecture through generated images that depict computing resources, network connections, and data center layouts. This visual copy allows users to understand complex network relationships without directly interacting with the actual infrastructure, resolving the contradiction between providing versatile computing resources and enabling user comprehension of network architecture.
2Productivity
If the complexity and size of applications running in cloud systems increases, then more computing resources and network functionality are required, but it becomes more difficult for users to understand the architectural layout and network relationships
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary visualization layer that mediates between the complex underlying network infrastructure and the user's understanding. The generated images serve as an intermediary representation that simplifies complex network relationships into comprehensible visual formats, allowing users to work with complex applications without being overwhelmed by the underlying architectural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the complex network architecture into discrete visual elements representing different computing resources, network connections, and data center components. By breaking down the overall network complexity into manageable visual segments, users can understand and navigate complex architectures without being overwhelmed by the total system complexity.
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AI summary
Techniques for a service of a cloud computing system to generate and present users with visualizations of computing resources and their network relationships in private networks of the users. The cloud system obtains resource and network connection data from private networks of users and determines overall network architectures for the computing resources and their network connections. The cloud system generates visualizations that represent the overall network architectures for private networks. The visualizations may comprise single pane-of-glass views for users to quickly understand the architectures and networking inside of their private networks. The visualizations may be interactive in that users can interact with visual depictions of resources and be dynamically presented with networking connections and details for the particular resources.