Delete cards in Infrastructure Composer - Amazon Infrastructure Composer
Enhanced component cardsStandard component cards
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Delete cards in Infrastructure Composer

This section provides instructions for deleting cards in Amazon Infrastructure Composer.

Enhanced component cards

To delete an enhanced component card, select a card you have place on the visual canvas. From the Card actions menu, select Delete.

An enhanced component card with its Card actions menu displayed and the Delete option shown.

Standard component cards

To delete standard component cards, you must manually remove the infrastructure code for each Amazon CloudFormation resource from your template. The following is a simple way to accomplish this:

  1. Take note of the logical ID for the resource to delete.

  2. On your template, locate the resource by its logical ID from the Resources or Outputs section.

  3. Delete the resource from your template. This includes the resource logical ID and its nested values, such as Type and Properties.

  4. Check the Canvas view to verify that the resource has been removed from your canvas.