AWS Infrastructure Composer

Concept

With AWS Infrastructure Composer you can design infrastructure with drag-and-drop, like drawing a picture. You place resources such as Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB on a canvas and draw connections between them. As you draw, it writes a CloudFormation or AWS SAM template behind the scenes. The other way round, if you open an existing template, it shows it as a picture. It can be used in the AWS Console and in VS Code’s AWS Toolkit.

Simple example

Building a model house with Lego — just join the pieces and the design is ready.

Why it’s needed

Writing templates is hard at the start. Understanding and building by looking at a picture is easier.

Where it’s used

Building serverless app designs visually, and viewing existing templates as pictures.

Azure equivalent

No direct match

Remember

Infrastructure Composer = a sketchbook for designs that writes the template by itself.

Learn more

For details and the latest information, see the official documentation:

• AWS Infrastructure Composer — AWS official documentation ↗