Working now
- Force-directed graph of services and terms
- Show or hide services and terms
- Filter by service category
- Search a node and read its definition
- Zoom, with light and dark themes
AWS Glossary Graph
A live map of AWS services and the glossary terms that connect them. It is the public step between myDNAHealth's private results graph and CertGraph.
Why I built it
Linear glossaries obscure relationships between cloud concepts.
How it works
- Terms
- Relationships
- Graph
- Explore
FastAPI serves the pages and the graph file, and D3.js draws the force-directed graph. Definitions come from the official AWS Glossary. Connections are the glossary's own cross-links; nothing is inferred.
Where it stands today
Live at aws-glossary-graph.devlookforward.com, with an interface refreshed on 24 September 2026. The graph holds 171 AWS services, 676 glossary terms, and 899 connections.
Not there yet
- Relationship quality and learning outcomes were not independently validated.
How it got here
- Its zoom and filter code first appeared in myDNAHealth's private results graph
- The AWS Glossary scraped and turned into a first graph during AWS re/Start
- Repository and Cloud Run deployment set up
- Interface refreshed, with hosting and rate-limit fixes through July 2025
- Refreshed interface live
What comes next
Next step
Link each node into the AWS documentation.
Later ideas, not current features
- Fill in connections the glossary does not spell out
- Link each node into the AWS documentation
- Saved views for returning learners
What I checked, and what stays bounded
Dated evidence
- Cloud Run deployment set updeployment
- Interface refreshrelease
- Refreshed interface livedeployment
Boundaries it keeps
- Not evidence of certification efficacy
- The AWS Glossary is not a complete catalog, and the graph inherits its limits
My role
Built the glossary scrape, the graph build from the glossary's own cross-links, the interaction, and the deployment.