Use Views & Filter Expressions

Create More Specific Diagrams with Views and Filter Expressions

Views and filters provide the flexibility to visualize exactly what’s needed for your use-case

Use Views

Views provide our users with a fast track to generating diagrams based on our predefined or user-defined visualization settings. This feature provides a streamlined way to switch between different perspectives of an AWS environment.

At the moment, we have several default views defined, such as:

  • Full Account View – Provides a visualization of all AWS resources (that are currently supported by Cloudviz.io), offering a complete overview of infrastructure components.
  • Security View – Focuses on security-related resources such as Security Groups and Network ACLs.
  • VPC View – Displays all resources related to your Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), helping users analyze network architecture and dependencies.
  • Serverless View – Highlights serverless components, including AWS Lambda functions, API Gateway endpoints, DynamoDB tables, WAF, S3 buckets and other fully managed cloud services.
  • VPC View with ENI and EBS Volumes – Expands the standard VPC View by including Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) and Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, providing deeper insights into networking and storage resources.

Read more about views functionality in the Views section.

Use Filter Expressions

Filter expressions allow you to visualize a specific subset of your AWS resources. You can apply them both in the UI and via the Developer API to update your diagrams to contain only the resources that matter.

Filter expressions let you visualize resources using:

  • Basic syntax like vpcId=<id>, tag=<value>:<key>, <resource-parameter>=<value>. For example: vpcId=vpc-123, tag=stage:dev, subnetId=subnet-123, runtime=nodejs18.x
  • Combine conditions with operators like AND, OR, !=, and wildcards * (e.g., vpcId=vpc-123 and privateIpAddress=10.*.5.*)
  • Group them with parentheses for complex queries (e.g., vpcId=vpc-123 and (tag=stage:dev or tag=cost-center:billing)).

For more details see Filter expressions section.

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