Standard cards in Application Composer

All AWS CloudFormation resources are available to use as standard IaC resource cards from the Resources palette. After being dragged onto the visual canvas, a standard IaC resource card becomes a standard component card. This simply means the card is one or more standard IaC resources. For further examples and details, see the topics in this section.

You can modify your infrastructure code through the Template view and through the Resource properties window. For example, the following is an example starting template of an Alexa::ASK::Skill standard IaC resource:

Resources:
  Skill:
    Type: Alexa::ASK::Skill
    Properties:
      AuthenticationConfiguration:
        RefreshToken: <String>
        ClientSecret: <String>
        ClientId: <String>
      VendorId: <String>
      SkillPackage:
        S3Bucket: <String>
        S3Key: <String>

A standard IaC resource card starting template consists of the following:

• The AWS CloudFormation resource type.

• Required or commonly used properties.

• The required type of the value to provide for each property.

Note

You can use Amazon Q to generate infrastructure code suggestions for standard resource cards. To learn more, see Using AWS Application Composer with Amazon Q Developer.

Procedure

You can modify the infrastructure code for each resource in a standard component card through the Resource properties panel.

To modify a standard component card

1. Open the Resource properties panel of the standard IaC component card.

2. In the Editing field, select the standard IaC resource to edit from the dropdown list.

3. Modify your infrastructure code and Save.