Introducing AWS Simple Icons for your Architecture Diagrams

Cloud Computing has shifted the focus more than ever to architecture of an application. In order to get the maximum benefit of on-demand infrastructure, it is important to invest time in your architectures.

A diagram is worth a thousand words. An architecture diagram is probably worth a million to architects and developers. Its is one of easiest and simplest ways to communicate quickly about your application, its architectures and its topology. We want you to share your AWS-powered cloud architectures with us so we (and our partners) can give you feedback.  

Hence, we have created AWS Simple Icons for most of our services and features. They are now available in our Architecture Center for download. Customers and partners can use them to create consistent-looking diagrams and share with us and the rest of the world. We have also included several example architecture digrams and guidelines on how to use these icons in your diagrams. These icons are simple by design so that you can incorporate them in your whitepapers, presentations and other places that you see fit. We are releasing multiple formats (PPTX, VISIO Stencil, SVG, EPS, Online tools) so that you can use the tools that you love.  

This is our first release of the icon set. We plan to keep the icon set up-to-date with our latest and greatest services and features and enhance the tools and resources so that it even easier for you to communicate with us. Your feedback is extremely important to us and hence please use the comments section if you have any feedback.

Happy Diagramming!

-Jinesh

Comments

[Larry]

What license are these icons released under?

Thanks.

[Patrick Dunnigan]

That was my question as well, what license?
Thanks,
Patrick D.

[Rayson Ho]

Please release them under a free (Creative Commons) license, so that we can upload them onto Wikipedia.

Thanks,
Rayson (Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine project, Scalable Grid Engine Support Program)

[Matt]

Would be great if you could provide the icons as SVG as well please.

[Aamod]

Icons looking awesome. :)

No license file anywhere. Means public domain, right?

[AndrewG]

Unfortunately the Powerpoint version at least has an "all rights reserved" copyright notice at the bottom so as I understand it, no one can use these icons without written permission from Amazon.

[Bgiorgini]

That's PERFECT! I will start converting my old diagrams with these awesome looking icon set.
@Matt, SVG files are in the same EPS file set.
It would be great to see actually a sample for the "Web Application" designed in Amazon Calculator. http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html?key=a-simple-3-tier-web-app

[Michael Harings]

"We have also included several example architecture digrams and guidelines on how to use these icons in your diagrams. "

I only have a dir of .eps and one of .svg files. I don't see any diagrams or guidelines.

[Jinesh]

Apologies for the delay. Thank you all for the feedback.

This icon set does not have a license file. Customers and partners are permitted by AWS to use the icons to create AWS-related artifacts as they seem fit.

@Michael - we have now included a PDF in the zip which includes the sample diagrams. Thanks for letting us know.

@Matt - The SVG files are included in the same zip as EPS. We have updated the thumbnail to avoid the confusion

-- Jinesh

[Michael Nygard]

Any chance of getting these for OmniGraffle as well?

[Jinesh]

Hey Michael,

I think you will be able to import the VSS (visio stencil) into Omnigraffle. Some tried and it seemed to have worked fine. let me know if it does not.

Jin

[denise s.]

Importing the VSS into Omnigraffle mostly works but some of the stencils do not import correctly. One example is the VPC group subnet stencil..

[ChristianSchab]

I recently posted aws omnigraffle stencils at graffletopia http://bit.ly/yC9WWX