New — Architecture Designer

Design GCP
architectures visually.

Drag-and-drop GCP and third-party services onto a canvas, connect them, get an AI architecture review, and generate production-ready Terraform — all in one tool.

30 service nodes
8 templates
AI-powered review
Free to use
Architecture Designer — Three-Tier Web App
Cloud DNS
Load Balancer
Cloud Armor
Cloud Run
GKE
Cloud SQL
Pub/Sub
BigQuery
VPC Network
Terraform ready

From blank canvas to
production Terraform

Four steps from idea to infrastructure-as-code.

01

Drag & drop your architecture

Pick from 20+ GCP services and 10+ third-party integrations. Drop them onto the canvas, connect them with animated edges, and group services inside VPC and Subnet boundaries.

02

Start from a proven template

8 pre-built blueprints based on real Google Cloud Architecture Center patterns — Three-Tier Web App, GKE Microservices, Serverless Pipeline, Zero Trust Security, and more.

03

Get AI architecture review

The built-in AI Advisor analyzes your canvas against Google Cloud Architecture Framework pillars — security, reliability, performance, cost, and operational excellence.

04

Generate production Terraform

One click generates review-ready HCL for every service on your canvas — main.tf, variables.tf, and provider config — ready to push to your CI/CD pipeline.

A complete GCP
design workbench

Not just a diagram tool — Architecture Designer is a full design-to-deploy workflow built specifically for Google Cloud.

20 GCP services + 10 third-party integrations (GitHub, Datadog, Cloudflare, PagerDuty…)

VPC and Subnet boundary nodes for accurate network topology

8 pre-built templates from Google Cloud Architecture Center blueprints

AI Advisor powered by Claude / Gemini — structured suggestions per pillar

One-click Terraform generation — full HCL, not just stubs

Export canvas as high-res PNG for docs, proposals, and presentations

Load your live GCP topology directly onto the canvas

Right-click context menu, keyboard shortcuts, node resize, rename

Security-aware templates — Zero Trust, Cloud Armor WAF, IAM least-privilege

Animated marching-ants edges for clear data-flow visualization

AI Advisor — Architecture Analysis
🛡️Security
88/100

Cloud Armor WAF in place. Consider adding VPC Service Controls for BigQuery.

Reliability
92/100

Multi-zone GKE cluster detected. Add Cloud SQL read replicas for HA.

💰Cost
74/100

Committed Use Discounts applicable for GKE node pools. Estimated $1.2k/mo saving.

🚀Performance
85/100

Cloud CDN not connected to Load Balancer. Add for static asset caching.

Generating Terraform recommendations…

Start from a Google Cloud
Architecture Center blueprint

8 production-grade templates covering the most common GCP architecture patterns — each one loads instantly onto the canvas.

Three-Tier Web App

web

9 nodes · 9 connections

Cloud RunCloud SQLMemorystore

GKE Microservices

enterprise

12 nodes · 11 connections

GKECloud ArmorArtifact Registry

Serverless Event Pipeline

serverless

8 nodes · 8 connections

Cloud FunctionsPub/SubBigQuery

Hub-and-Spoke VPC

security

12 nodes · 10 connections

VPCCloud NATCloud DNS

Data Analytics Platform

data

9 nodes · 8 connections

BigQueryPub/SubDatadog

CI/CD DevOps Pipeline

devops

10 nodes · 10 connections

Cloud BuildGKEGitHub

Secure Microservices on GKE

security

9 nodes · 8 connections

GKECloud ArmorCloud SQL

Cloudflare + GCP Edge

security

8 nodes · 7 connections

CloudflareCloud ArmorCloud Run

Available on every plan

The canvas is free. Pro unlocks Claude-powered AI analysis and full Terraform generation.

FREE
Full drag-and-drop canvas
All 30 service nodes
8 pre-built templates
AI Advisor (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
Export PNG
Terraform generation (basic)
PRO
Everything in Free
AI Advisor (Claude Sonnet)
Load live GCP topology
Full Terraform generation
GitHub export
Priority Terraform generation
ENTERPRISE
Everything in Pro
Custom service node library
Architecture consulting
Team canvas sharing
SSO & SAML
SLA guarantee

Design your GCP architecture
the right way, the first time.

No Visio. No Lucidchart. A GCP-native canvas that generates real Terraform and gives you AI architecture feedback — free.

Free forever · No credit card · GCP-native · Official Apache 2.0 icons

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