Standard component cards in Infrastructure Composer - Amazon Infrastructure Composer
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Standard component cards in Infrastructure Composer

Before a standard component card is placed on Infrastructure Composer's visual canvas, it is listed as a Standard (IaC) resource card on the Resources palette in Infrastructure Composer. A standard (IaC) resource card represents a single Amazon CloudFormation resource. Each standard IaC resource card, once placed on the visual canvas, becomes a card labeled Standard component, and may be combined to represent multiple Amazon CloudFormation resources.

Standard IaC resource cards in the Resources palette.

Each standard IaC resource card can be identified by its Amazon CloudFormation resource type. The following is an example of a standard IaC resource card that represents an AWS::ECS::Cluster Amazon CloudFormation resource type:

A standard IaC resource cluster card.

Each standard component card visualizes the Amazon CloudFormation resources that it contains. The following is an example of a standard component card that includes two standard IaC resources:

A DemoLambdaFunction standard component card that includes two standard IaC resource cards.

As you configure the properties of your standard component cards, Infrastructure Composer may combine related cards together. For example, here are two standard component cards:

Two standard component cards. One is an AWS::Lambda::Function card and the other is an AWS::IAM::Role card.

In the Resource properties panel of the standard component card representing an AWS::Lambda::Function resource, we reference the Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) role by its logical ID:

The Resource properties panel for the AWS::Lambda::Function standard component card.

After saving our template, the two standard component cards combine into a single standard component card.

A standard component card that includes two Amazon CloudFormation resources.