If you’ve tried using these AWS stencils, you probably noticed issues-a-plenty: This isn’t the first time I’ve dealt with subpar third party Visio stencils, but it was definitely the first time that I found the experience so viscerally frustrating as to force me to figure out how to fix them - or, at the very least, make them somewhat less terrible. Why the Provided Stencils are Less than Great There are sometimes, however, when one of these third parties make available a well-intended, but ultimately awful, set of stencils that they invite you to use to document their nifty widgets and doodads… thus was my experience recently when I downloaded Amazon’s AWS Visio stencils, and this blog post details what I did about it. A few labels and some strategically placed lines, and you’ve got yourself a passable diagram ready to share with your colleagues… yay. Generally speaking, it’s all well and good to open the application, choose applicable stencils for your project (bundled or those you’ve downloaded from a third party), and start dragging shapes onto the page. Given that it has been the de facto standard in creating visual representations of complex architectures and other technological concepts for close to two decades, it’s likely you’ve encountered the tool yourself. As an IT professional, I’ve had occasion to use Microsoft Visio perhaps two or three thousand times.
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