Allow component-less image recipes.

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Tell us about your request

Image Builder image recipes currently require a minimum of 1 component (API, Cfn).

Users may not want any for pure workflow image recipes.

Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?

Reduce the number of resources needed for an image recipe.

Are you currently working around this issue?

Creating a no-op component for recipes. For example:

Resources:
  DummyLinuxComponent:
    Type: AWS::ImageBuilder::Component
    Properties:
      # ...
      Data: |
        schemaVersion: '1'
        phases:
          - name: build
            steps:
              - name: dummy
                action: Assert
                inputs:
                  stringIsEmpty: ''
      Platform: Linux
  DummyMacComponent:
    Type: AWS::ImageBuilder::Component
    Properties:
      # ...
      Data: |
        schemaVersion: '1'
        phases:
          - name: build
            steps:
              - name: dummy
                action: Assert
                inputs:
                  stringIsEmpty: ''
      Platform: macOS
  DummyWindowsComponent:
    Type: AWS::ImageBuilder::Component
    Properties:
      # ...
      Data: |
        schemaVersion: '1'
        phases:
          - name: build
            steps:
              - name: dummy
                action: Assert
                inputs:
                  stringIsEmpty: ''
      Platform: Windows

Additional context

None.