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title: Infrastructure
description: >-
  Use the Infrastructure overlay in Cloudcraft to view resources grouped by
  Account, Region, and VPC for architecture diagrams and troubleshooting.
breadcrumbs: Docs > Cloudcraft in Datadog > Overlays > Infrastructure
---

# Infrastructure

## Overview{% #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.

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   source="https://docs.dd-static.net/images/datadog_cloudcraft/infra_overlay_5.ee57e6ca50172353850e5b5d5373c48c.png?auto=format&fit=max&w=850 1x, https://docs.dd-static.net/images/datadog_cloudcraft/infra_overlay_5.ee57e6ca50172353850e5b5d5373c48c.png?auto=format&fit=max&w=850&dpr=2 2x"
   alt="Infrastructure overlay in Cloudcraft." /%}

## Use cases{% #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{% #resource-grouping %}

Resources are organized in a hierarchical structure. The grouping labels vary by provider:

| Level      | AWS     | Azure           | GCP     |
| ---------- | ------- | --------------- | ------- |
| Top-level  | Account | Subscription    | Project |
| Geographic | Region  | Region          | Region  |
| Network    | VPC     | Virtual Network | VPC     |

This hierarchy helps you understand how resources are distributed across your cloud infrastructure.

## Interact with resources{% #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{% #excluded-components %}

To reduce visual clutter and highlight the most important parts of your architecture, the Infrastructure overlay excludes certain components by default:

**AWS**

- EBS volumes
- NAT Gateways
- Transit Gateways

**GCP**

- Compute Disk
- GKE Cronjob
- GKE Daemonset
- GKE Deployment
- GKE Job
- GKE Pod
- GKE Statefulset

These components are still part of your infrastructure but are hidden to keep the diagram focused on core resources.

## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Observability overlay](https://docs.datadoghq.com/datadog_cloudcraft/overlays/observability.md)
- [Security overlay](https://docs.datadoghq.com/datadog_cloudcraft/overlays/security.md)
- [Cloud Cost Management overlay](https://docs.datadoghq.com/datadog_cloudcraft/overlays/ccm.md)