Lucidscale joins the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite to help teams working in the cloud visualize and understand their cloud infrastructure. Lucidscale automatically generates accurate dynamic cloud visualizations, significantly reducing the time and resources traditionally needed for cloud documentation and understanding. These automated diagrams allow teams to quickly and effectively design, build, deploy, and troubleshoot cloud environments for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as businesses continue to grow. Bookmark this page and check back at the beginning of each month to stay up-to-date with monthly product releases.

Lucidscale enables users to document plans, verify implementation, and communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical teams, helping organizations stay on top of compliance, security and internal best practices, and to maintain consistency across the business. Try Lucidscale today at www.lucidscale.com!

August 2024

In-editor request notifications

You can now view and grant document access requests directly from the share modal! This functionality makes it even easier for users to start collaborating with others in their Lucid documents right away.

Added support for new Azure resources

Azure CDN profiles
Azure Express Route Circuits

July 2024

No new updates for now. Check back next month!

June 2024

Team hubs

Create a team within Lucid to easily share and collaborate with the right people. Centralize shared documents, workflows, and projects to provide a one-stop shop for team coordination. Learn more.

Added support for new Google Cloud resources

VLAN Attachments (interconnectAttachments)
VPN tunnels

April–May 2024

Nothing new to report. Check back soon!

March 2024

New GCP resources

Cloud routers
VPN gateways
Interconnect (dedicated interconnects + partner interconnects)

October 2023–February 2024

Check back to see what's coming soon!

September 2023

Datahub cloud inventory

See a full inventory of resources for your GCP, AWS, or Azure infrastructure in the datahub. This will require you to update your role permissions.

Credential permission process

The read-only role is now recommended instead of the custom role when creating credentials for GCP and Azure. This will help you to take the full benefit of cloud inventory and will make it an easier experience when adding more resources support. The custom role option is still available.

New Azure resources and lines

Lot Hubs, Cache For Redis, Data Factory, Event Hubs, Front Door Standard / Premium, HDinsight Cluster, Log Analytics Workspaces, Virtual WANs, Application Security Groups, Event Hubs Namespaces, Network Security Groups as containers.

Front Door -> Application Gateway
Front Door -> Traffic Manager Profiles
Front Door -> Web Applications

Azure security groups view

View of all your network security groups and application security groups at a high level.

August 2023

Microsoft Office 365 integrations

Add Lucidscale models to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to improve visual clarity and align teams. Learn more.

May–July 2023

Check back next month for updates.

April 2023

Shapes

Export to Lucidspark shapes.

Lucidscale + Asana integration

Provide data and context that keeps your teams informed and aligned by embedding a Lucidscale model into your Asana tasks. Learn more.

Scheduled update limit

Limit increased to 50 data sources for all Lucidscale accounts.

Conditional formatting

A new indicator will now appear above shapes that have had Conditional Formatting rules applied. Clicking on this indicator will open the specific rule that has been applied (or a list of all rules if there are multiple rules applied to the shape).

March 2023

Cloud inventory

An inventory of resources and their count within an account.

Scheduled update

The limit has been raised to 50 data sources per user.

Views as tabs

It is now much easier to navigate between views in your models. Views are now displayed as a row of tabs across the top of your screen. If you have a large number of views, extra views will overflow to a drop-down menu at the far right. You can create new tabs or export view configurations using the plus and settings icons on the right as well.

Line descriptions

Find out how Lucidscale automatically generates line connections between your resources. Navigate to Lines in the left panel and edit an individual line type to see details on the logic behind it.

Sort by resource category

Newly created models and views will now default to sorting by resource category (e.g., compute) followed by resource type (e.g., EC2 instances). All existing sort options are still available in the Layout panel.

February 2023

No new updates for now. Check back next month!

January 2023

New Lucid for Developers Community space

Connect with Lucid engineers and other developers for solutions to your most technical questions. This space also contains helpful tips and announcements about new endpoints, tools, and guides to help you have the best possible experience developing on Lucid’s APIs. Click here to browse and create posts.

December 2022

Scheduled update

Users can now set a schedule to automatically update their imported datasets in the data hub. Learn more.

November 2022

Google Calendar + Lucidscale

Effortlessly add a shared Lucidscale model to a meeting invitation and manage collaborator permissions when you create an event in Google Calendar. Learn more.

New view templates

AWS serverless infrastructure: A view of AWS most common serverless resources and the relationship between them. This template enables you to depict accurate communication between lambdas and their AWS native triggers.
Cost insights: Insights about specific resources and services focused on helping you optimize your cloud spend and decrease cost.
Security insights: General insights about services configuration that could pose security threats.
Compliance insights: Focus on highlighting potential compliance issues within your infrastructure.

Learn more about view templates.

Pre-model filtering by Resource Group for Azure

This feature allows you to select a list of resource groups prior to creating a model, resulting in a model with resources that meet the conditions you have selected.

October 2022

Summarize resources

Simplify any of your Views directly from the canvas by hovering over any of your visible resources and clicking the “Summarize” button. This will collapse all resources of the same type into a single shape with the number of resources labeled. You can reverse the action on any summarized shape to view individual resources by clicking the “Un-summarize” button.

Azure Network Security Groups

Azure NSGs can now be viewed in your Azure models, including on the canvas and in the Resources panel.

Resources

AWS

AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka

Azure

Azure Managed Identity

September 2022

Pre-model filtering by tags

You can now create tag-focused models. This feature allows you to select a list of tags prior to creating a model, resulting in a model with resources that meet the tag condition you have selected. You can also create models with resources that don’t have any tags to quickly assess the state of tagging governance of your infrastructure.

August 2022

Edit resource selection

Edit resource selection of an account, project, or subscription.

Announcing FedRAMP In Process status

Lucid Software products are now officially designated as "In Process" within the FedRAMP marketplace for government customers. Learn more.

July 2022

HTML embed

The HTML embed feature will automatically generate the HTML code you need to embed your Lucidscale model on any HTML page. Embedded models will stay up to date as the reference model is updated. Licensed viewers can open the model directly in Lucidscale in one click with the included link.

May–June 2022

Nothing new for now. Check back next month to see what we've been working on!

April 2022

Model sync improvements

Update your model without skipping a beat. Creators can now see when updates are available without refreshing their page. They can also see more detailed information about when their data sources were last pulled from the cloud provider, and work while updates happen in the background.

Resources

AWS

EMR
Network Firewall
Kinesis Firehose
DocumentDB
Cloud Trail
Glacier

March 2022

Join ID is now available in Lucidscale

Generate a short code that you can quickly send to collaborators to give them access to your model. They enter as a Guest Collaborator (unless they sign in). Enterprise admins can disable this feature for their account in the Admin Portal. Learn more.

Lucid’s Developer Portal is live!

Start building with Lucid’s Developer Portal. Use our public API library to build integrations tailored to your use cases, including document and user management, embedding, and more. Looking for an API but don’t see it? Tell us here: API Request Form.

February 2022

Azure App Service Plans

Azure App Service Plans data can now be imported into Lucidscale using both CSV import and Azure AD Application import. App Service plans are shown in the workspace both in the Resources panel under the Web & Mobile category and on the canvas as container-like shapes containing Web Apps under Resource Groups.

Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks data can now be imported into Lucidscale using both CSV import and Azure AD Application import. Databrick shapes are shown in the workspace both in the Resources panel under the analytics category and on the canvas nested under Resource Groups.

Line Categories for Azure and GCP

Easily locate the line types that you need and collapse line categories that are less relevant to the task at hand.

January 2022

Features

JSON Update: Users can now replace JSON data in the Data Hub with an updated file. Once the JSON is updated, models referencing the data can be synced to the latest version of the data.
Custom user Datasource naming for JSON imports: Users can now rename JSON imports.
Feature Find: Users can now search for features in the Lucidscale workspace using Feature Find. Access Feature Find under “Help” in the main menu in the top-left corner of the workspace (near the model title) or by pressing Ctrl/Cmd + Space on the keyboard.

December 2021

Features

EU Data Center support
Search projects/accounts/subscriptions after selecting a credential within the data hub.

November 2021

Nothing new for now. Check back next month to see what we've been working on!

October 2021

Lucidscale Launch

Lucidscale launched! Automatically generate cloud architecture diagrams from AWS, Azure, and GCP. To learn more about using Lucidscale, please visit this article.

Features

Data Hub: Manage and import datasets from your cloud providers. From within the data hub, you can see all your existing datasets, share existing datasets with other Lucidscale users in your organization, and update previously imported datasets. For more information on importing your data, check out our articles for importing from AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Custom Views: Create a new View that will save your model configurations. See the features below for different ways to customize your views. You can come back to the original view after a data refresh to have your settings restored.
Filters: Show only the resources that meet the criteria you need. You can filter by the shape data we bring in from your cloud provider.
Conditional Formatting: Highlight resources or add an icon based on the criteria you set. Rules can be set using the shape data we bring in from your cloud provider.
Lines: Draw lines automatically based on the relationship between two resources.
Layout controls: Make adjustments to the layout of your diagram, like grouping resource types, changing columns, alignment, and more.
Data panel: Access all the metadata we import from your cloud provider in the data panel, giving you data in the context of your diagram.
Export to Lucidchart: Create a Lucidchart Document with the current state of your cloud infrastructure. This feature is only available to Lucidscale users who also have a Lucidchart license.

Resources

AWS

For a full list of supported AWS resources and lines, view this article.

Azure

For a full list of supported Azure resources and lines, view this article.

GCP

For a full list of supported GCP resources and lines, view this article.

August 2024

In-editor request notifications

Added support for new Azure resources

July 2024

June 2024

Team hubs

Credential Sharing

Related Resources

Added support for new Google Cloud resources

April–May 2024

March 2024

New GCP resources

October 2023–February 2024

September 2023

Datahub cloud inventory

Credential permission process

New Azure resources and lines

Azure security groups view

August 2023

Microsoft Office 365 integrations

May–July 2023

April 2023

Shapes

Lucidscale + Asana integration

Scheduled update limit

Conditional formatting

March 2023

Cloud inventory

Scheduled update

Views as tabs

Line descriptions

Sort by resource category

February 2023

January 2023

New Lucid for Developers Community space

December 2022

Scheduled update

November 2022

Google Calendar + Lucidscale

New view templates

Pre-model filtering by Resource Group for Azure

October 2022

Summarize resources

Azure Network Security Groups

Resources

September 2022

Pre-model filtering by tags

August 2022

Edit resource selection

Announcing FedRAMP In Process status

July 2022

HTML embed

May–June 2022

April 2022

Model sync improvements

Resources

March 2022

Join ID is now available in Lucidscale

Lucid’s Developer Portal is live!

February 2022

Azure App Service Plans

Azure Databricks

Line Categories for Azure and GCP

January 2022

Features

December 2021

Features

November 2021

October 2021

Lucidscale Launch

Features

Resources

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