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Overview
The Infrastructure overlay provides a broad overview of your cloud environment by grouping resources into Account, Region, and VPC. This is the default view when opening a Cloudcraft diagram.
Use cases
The Infrastructure overlay is ideal for:
- Generating architecture diagrams for documentation or presentations
- Troubleshooting connectivity and resource relationships
- Conducting high-level architecture reviews
- Onboarding team members to your cloud environment
Resource grouping
Resources are organized in a hierarchical structure:
- Account: Top-level grouping by AWS account
- Region: Resources grouped by geographic region within each account
- VPC: Resources grouped by Virtual Private Cloud within each region
This hierarchy helps you understand how resources are distributed across your cloud infrastructure.
Interact with resources
Click any resource to open a side panel with additional details, including:
- Resource type and name
- Associated tags
- Links to related Datadog views
Excluded components
To reduce visual clutter and highlight the most important parts of your architecture, the Infrastructure overlay excludes certain components by default:
- EBS volumes
- NAT Gateways
- Transit Gateways
These components are still part of your infrastructure but are hidden to keep the diagram focused on core resources.
Further reading
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:
