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 AWS 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 AWS CloudFormation resources.

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

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

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:

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

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