Show more characters in resource names

[chris-armstrong]

Feature name
Show more characters in resource names

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I am trying to visualise serverless-style deployments that have a lot of resources, often with autogenerated names or names with fixed prefixes. The 13 character limit on names before they are truncated e.g. honey-shared-application -> honey-shared... makes it hard to distinguish resources.

Describe the feature you'd like to see implemented

• Show resources with longer names without truncation (and more diagram spacing to separate them)
• strip out prefixes common to numerous resources or shorten them in the diagram

Describe the value this feature will add to AWS Perspective
Enable lots of resources with similar prefixes or long names to be distinguished in a diagram.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I could redeploy resources with shorter names, but this is a hassle in order to visualise them automatically.

Additional context
Many of our resources are prefixed with stack names or environment names.

[svozza]

My concern here is the amount of extra whitespace having the full names would introduce into diagrams. I do wonder though if we could make this configurable in the Diagram Settings section of the diagram so user could choose.

[chris-armstrong]

I fully agree, and think that multiple solutions may needed, because some users may have very short names (although the current 12 characters is very short). However, at the moment the tool is very difficult for my use case because I can't configure anything to either select part of the names, filter out common parts, or show more of the names.

[svozza]

We've added this feature request to our backlog.