Creating Architecture diagrams

I remember in college, we were asked to do UML and User diagrams and we'd sigh. It was fun when doing but the background process of figuring out how things worked, was a headache (at least for me). Well, telling someone who's least interested to be there, to sit and draw "boxes" is a bad move already. But for someone trying to make sense of what's going on, I should have gone trying to understand. But I (we? Tell me, I'm not alone :') )figured it was a one time thing or something, which in hindsight was very dumb thing to think. The "IT" people's "ART" When I started my journey of figuring out Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) , I came across what are known as "architecture diagrams" pretty much early on and frequently. These are images which describe how various services (both third party and in-party) can be "put together and made to work" with various symbols and lines. This is something I never realized was impo...