The Technology category in the command palette holds full-colour brand icons for the infrastructure services that show up on system-architecture diagrams: AWS S3, Lambda, EC2, Azure Functions, Kubernetes, Postgres, and many more. They sit beside the regular Icons category but are deliberately a separate surface, because they are coloured filled marks rather than the single-weight line art the Icons catalogue holds. An orange Lambda is only recognisable orange, so technology icons keep their fixed brand colours rather than tinting to your theme.
What's in the set
The first cut covers a curated set of common services across three providers:
- AWS: S3, EC2, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53, VPC, SQS, SNS, ECS, EKS, CloudWatch, IAM.
- Azure: Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, App Service, Functions, SQL Database, Cosmos DB, AKS, Virtual Network, Load Balancer, Service Bus, Key Vault, Monitor.
- Generic infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, Nginx, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, GraphQL.
Each icon is a brand-coloured rounded tile with a white line-art glyph, the AWS resource-icon visual language, applied uniformly across all three providers for a cohesive look.
Adding one
Use the search box or the provider filter (All / AWS / Azure / Generic) to find the icon you want.
Click a tile to add it at the viewport centre, or drag a tile onto the canvas to drop it at the pointer.
The Technology grid shows four icons across with a caption under each, since brand glyphs aren't always self-explanatory at thumbnail size. A few long names use a shorter caption (Virtual Machine shows as VM, for example), but the full name is always used for search and for the placed element's label.
Working with them on the canvas
- A technology icon is the same kind of element the regular Icons category produces, so there's no new element type to learn. It is aspect-locked, so the brand mark never warps when you resize it.
- Double-click to type a label and the text drops in a band below the glyph, the architecture-diagram convention of icon on top, caption beneath, which is exactly right for labelling
S3,Orders DB, and the like. - A technology icon is always a standalone element: unlike a line-art icon, it never folds inside a shape as an inline icon, and dragging an existing one over a shape leaves it standalone.
The System architecture starter template seeds some of these branded tiles, so a developer audience lands on a diagram that already speaks their stack. Brand tiles keep their colours even when you change the diagram's theme.
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