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Brand icons for the services people put on system-architecture diagrams, in their official colours.

The Technology category in the 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 set covers a curated selection of common services across five 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.
  • Cloudflare: Workers, Pages, R2, D1, KV, Durable Objects, Queues, Zero Trust, CDN, DNS, WAF, Workers AI, Images, Stream.
  • Firebase: Firestore, Realtime Database, Authentication, Cloud Functions, Hosting, Cloud Storage, Cloud Messaging.
  • 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 symbol, the AWS resource-icon visual language, applied uniformly across all five providers for a cohesive look.

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The Technology tab shows a grid of full-colour brand tiles, each in its own accent hue with a caption beneath.

Adding one

Open the palette and switch to the Technology tab.

Pick a provider (AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Firebase, Generic) to see its marks, or type in the search box to look across all of them at once.

Use the breadcrumb at the top to go back to the provider list.

Click a tile to add it at the centre of the view, or drag a tile onto the canvas to drop it at the pointer.

The Technology grid shows three icons across with a caption under each, since brand icons 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 icon, 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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