Start diagramming using Azure icons
Azure icons are being use to symbolize Azure products. These can help you create custom Azure diagrams, training material, or documentation for your future solution/software/app, etc. There are many Azure stencils for the Azure services, so it is useful to understand the most important ones before downloading and using them. We have compiled a list of important Azure icons which can also be downloaded. All of these icons are already included in the Holori Azure architecture diagram software, however, it may be useful for you to understand their purposes. If you don’t want to use Holori you may decide to copy / paste those icons into powerpoint.
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Azure Company logo
Azure is the second largest cloud provider after AWS.
Azure load balancer
The process of equally spreading incoming network traffic (load) across a group of backend resources or servers is referred to as load balancing. The load balancer distributes inbound flows to backend pool instances that arrive at the load balancer’s front end. Load balancers are used to balance internet traffic to your virtual machines or within a virtual network. Your applications can be scaled and highly available services created. Azure load balancer icons are an important element of your architecture diagram as they help you and your teammates specify your load balancing requirements.
Virtual machine
Azure’s virtual machines are scalable compute resources that are available on demand. These are suitable for hosting applications. Azure Virtual Machines are also useful for testing, deploying, and developing environments. Azure provides a pay-as-you-go option to its customers. SQL Server, SAP, Oracle software, and high-performance computing applications can be operated on Azure Virtual Machines. Users can also select between Windows and Linux servers.
Security Center (Microsoft Defender for Cloud)
It is a cloud security solution that scans your cloud configuration for weaknesses and vulnerabilities. It defends against malicious attacks on hybrid workloads running in Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and on-premises. The Azure product represented by this icon improves the overall security posture of your environment and helps protect workloads from emerging attacks. It improves the overall security setup of your cloud resources.
Autoscale
This is an Azure service that allows apps to be dynamically scaled by any measure to suit changing demand. It is a feature that you just pay for what you use. For example, if your traffic spikes from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or Monday through Friday, you can scale back at night and on weekends to save money.
Network Interface Card
This Azure icon is an interconnection between a Virtual Machine and the underlying software network, also known as NIC. A network interface is automatically created when a virtual machine is created.
VHD Data Disk – VHD
These are Azure-managed disks which provide Block-level storage volumes to store any type of data or application. These are used in combination with Azure Virtual Machines. On-premises, these are physical disks that provide virtual services to customers. Using managed disks, a user can create up to 50,000 VM disks per region. It enables you to create thousands of virtual machines with a single subscription.
Batch
It is a compute management platform that enables the execution of large-scale parallel batch applications in the cloud. A user can use this Azure icon to scale hundreds of virtual machines, stage data and run compute pipelines, autoscale on work in the queue, and pay for only what they need.
Virtual Network
This Azure icon is also called as VNet, it enables Azure resources to communicate securely with one another. VNets are similar to traditional networks, but they also have the extra benefits of Azure’s infrastructure, such as scalability and availability. They are very important in a cloud diagramming tool as users can drag and drop other icons on top of Virtual Network areas to virtually add them to this network, thus simplifying the centralized management of the infra.
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Storage Accounts
An Azure storage account holds all of your Azure Storage data objects, such as blobs, file shares, queues, tables, and disks. For your Azure Storage data, the storage account generates a unique namespace. This information is available over HTTP or HTTPS from anywhere in the world. Data in your storage account is both long-lasting and highly accessible, as well as safe and scalable.
Blob storage
Azure Blob storage is a cloud object storage service designed for storing large amounts of unstructured data. This Azure icon provides a low-cost, high-availability storage solution that serves images or documents straight to a browser. It can also store files for dispersed access and stream video and audio.
Ultra disk
For Azure IaaS virtual machines, Azure hyper disks provide high throughput, high IOPS, and continuous low latency disk storage. It can modify the performance of the SSD dynamically in response to your workloads without the need to restart your VMs.
DNS
It is a DNS domain hosting service that performs name resolution using Microsoft Azure infrastructure. DNS records can be managed on Azure using the same credentials, APIs, tools, and pricing as other Azure services.
AKS
Also known as Azure Kubernetes service, it is the easiest method to start developing and delivering cloud-native apps with built-in code-to-cloud pipelines and guardrails. AKS helps you unify the management and governance for on-premises, edge, and multicloud Kubernetes clusters.
Databox
Data Box devices are physical devices used to move data to Azure when congested networks are not an option. When time, network availability, or costs are constraints, users can move huge amounts of data to Azure.
Stack edge
It is an Azure-managed device that extends Azure’s computation, storage, and intelligence to the edge. A user can execute applications near to the data at the edge, analyze the data for immediately actionable insights using hardware accelerated AI/ML, and transmit data efficiently and easily between the cloud and the edge.
App Service
You can quickly and easily create enterprise-ready web and mobile apps for any platform or device with App service. They can then be deployed on a scalable and dependable cloud infrastructure.
Traffic Manager
It’s a traffic load balancing service that lets you distribute traffic to your public-facing apps across all Azure regions worldwide. Additionally, Traffic Manager ensures that your public endpoints are constantly accessible and respond rapidly. It improves application availability and efficiency.
Azure SQL Database
It is an Azure-managed database that allows you to build apps that scale with the speed of your business using a managed and intelligent SQL database in the cloud.
Mobile App Service
It is used to construct and host the backend for any mobile app, as the name suggests. You can use offline data sync to create responsive apps that autoscale to match your needs.
WebJob
Webjobs enable users to run a program or script within the context of a web app, API app, or mobile app.
Function
Azure Functions is a serverless cloud solution that enables you to write less code, manage less infrastructure, and save money. It is an on-demand service that provides all of the constantly updated infrastructure and resources required to operate your apps.
Cloud Services
It is a PaaS cloud service solution developed to serve scalable, dependable, and cost-effective applications. There are two types of cloud service icons: the first is a Web Role and the second is Worker Role Cloud Service.
Cloud Service Worker Role
This Azure icon does not utilize IIS and runs your software/app independently.
Cloud Service Web Role
It deploys and hosts your program using IIS automatically.
Management Groups
It is a method of managing access, policy, and compliance for such subscriptions in an efficient manner. This Azure icon provides enterprise-grade management at scale regardless of the sort of subscriptions you have. In a cloud diagram it helps you apply common rules to a set of elements instead of doing it for each element individually.
Azure Service Bus
Azure Service Bus is an enterprise message broker with message queues and publish-subscribe topics that is fully managed. It is used to safely route and transfer data and control across service and application boundaries, as well as to coordinate transactional activities that require high reliability.
Azure Logic App
It is an Azure icon that allows you to easily create strong integration solutions.
Resource Group
A resource group is a collection of resources that are linked to an Azure solution. These Azure icons can include all of the resources in the solution or only those that you want to manage as a group.
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
This Azure icon provides a global solution for delivering content quickly and reliably across a global network.
Azure Event Hubs
This is a fully managed Azure service that collects data from millions of devices and streams millions of events per second from any source.
Stream Analytics
A user can simply create an end-to-end serverless streaming pipeline and collect real-time analytics from the cloud to the periphery with a few clicks using Stream Analytics.
IoT Hub
This Azure Icon is capable of connecting, monitoring, and managing billions of IoT assets.
Blockchain
With Azure services built on blockchain technology, this service can streamline complicated operations and deliver efficient supply chain solutions, minimize fraud, verify transactions faster, and develop disruptive new business models.
API management
It is an API management platform for hybrid and multi-cloud settings. This Azure icon in your Azure architecture diagram allows you to deploy API gateways alongside APIs hosted in Azure and other clouds. It also aids in the protection of your resources, creating apps more quickly and enhancing API discoverability
Cosmos
Azure Cosmos is a serverless NoSQL database that is fully managed and cost-effective. It allows you to build or update scalable, high-performance apps.
Public IP
This Azure icon allows Azure resources to communicate with the Internet and with Azure services that are accessible to the general public as well as enables Internet resources to communicate with Azure resources inbound.
Service Hosts
Azure Service Hosts are essentially containerized environments where you can run and manage your Azure services. They provide a secure and isolated space to deploy and run your applications and services in the cloud.
Azure Synapse Analytics
The service was previously known as Azure SQL Data Warehouse but has now evolved into a more comprehensive offering that integrates with Apache Spark for big data processing and supports both serverless and provisioned resources.
With Azure Synapse Analytics, you can perform advanced analytics on large datasets by using powerful tools such as Power BI, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Data Factory.
Azure Bastion
Azure Bastion icon is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) solution that provides secure and seamless remote access to virtual machines (VMs) and virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) in the Azure cloud.
With Azure Bastion, you can connect to your VMs securely from within the Azure portal using a browser. It provides a streamlined and secure RDP/SSH experience over SSL using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Secure Shell (SSH) directly from the Azure portal. This makes it easy for administrators and developers to access their VMs without the need for a VPN connection or public IP addresses.
Azure Firewall
The Azure Firewall logo is a cloud-based network security service offered by Microsoft Azure that provides highly available and scalable network and application-level protection. It filters network traffic at both the application and network level, integrates with Azure services, and is highly available and scalable. It also allows for centralized management and customizable rules to meet specific security needs.
Azure Private Link
With Azure Private Link, you can create a private endpoint in your virtual network that is mapped to the IP address of a specific Azure service, such as Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, or Azure Data Factory. This allows you to access these services through a private IP address in your virtual network, providing a more secure and efficient way to access them.
Azure Databricks
With Azure Databricks, users can process large amounts of data using Apache Spark on a distributed cluster of computers. The platform includes a collaborative workspace for data engineers, data scientists, and analysts to work together on data processing and machine learning tasks.
Azure Active directory
Azure AD enables administrators to create and manage user accounts, grant access to resources, and enforce security policies across their organization’s cloud-based applications. Users can authenticate using their Azure AD credentials, such as their username and password, or through various other authentication methods such as multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, and passwordless authentication.
Azure Spot VM
Azure Spot VM is a pricing model for virtual machines in Microsoft Azure that enables you to take advantage of unused capacity in the Azure datacenter at a significantly lower cost. The Azure Spot VM pricing model allows you to purchase compute capacity at a significantly lower price than the standard pay-as-you-go rates, with the trade-off being that Microsoft may reclaim the capacity with just 30 seconds of notice if the demand for that capacity increases.
Spot VMs are ideal for workloads that can handle interruptions or are fault-tolerant, such as batch processing, dev/test environments, and other non-critical workloads. You can deploy Spot VMs using the same deployment methods as regular VMs, and they offer the same performance, reliability, and scalability as regular VMs.
Azure Fileshare
This Azure icon enables organizations to store and share files with other users or applications running on-premises or in the cloud.
Azure File Share is built on the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, which is widely used in enterprise networks. It provides the ability to create file shares and to mount them from different locations using a URL, allowing multiple users to access the same files simultaneously.
Azure File Share is fully managed and provides features such as high availability, scalability, and security
Azure HCP cache
Azure HCP Cache icon, also known as Azure Hybrid Cache Service, is a caching solution provided by Microsoft Azure that enables you to extend your on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. It allows you to store frequently accessed data in the cloud for faster access and reduced latency.
Azure HCP Cache is a fully managed service that supports multiple caching scenarios, including web content caching, database caching, and file sharing. It uses a distributed caching architecture, which enables you to cache data across multiple servers in different locations, providing high availability and fault tolerance.
Azure service NAT
Azure Service NAT icon (Network Address Translation) is a managed network service provided by Microsoft Azure. It allows virtual machines (VMs) within an Azure Virtual Network to access the internet using a shared public IP address, while also providing source network address translation for outbound traffic.
Azure route table
In Microsoft Azure, a route table is a networking resource that controls the routing of network traffic within a virtual network (VNet). It allows you to define and manage the flow of traffic between subnets and networks within your Azure infrastructure.
Azure subnet
In Azure, a subnet is a range of IP addresses within a virtual network (VNet). It is a subdivision of a VNet and allows you to segment and organize your resources within a network. A subnet acts as a container for resources and provides isolation and security boundaries.
Azure manage database
Azure Managed Databases icons are fully managed database services provided by Microsoft Azure that offer high availability, automatic backups, automated patching, and other management features. Azure provides several managed database services for different database types
Azure data factory
Azure Data Factory icon is a cloud-based data integration service provided by Microsoft Azure. It allows you to create, schedule, and manage data pipelines that move and transform data across various sources and destinations. Azure Data Factory provides a platform for building and orchestrating data-driven workflows to ingest, prepare, transform, and publish data.
No need of Azure icons when using Holori
Holori’s Azure architecture diagram tool is an innovative tool that allows you to create a new Azure architecture diagram very quickly. Azure diagrams made using Holori cloud diagramming software are more than simple drawings or diagrams. They give you a complete overview of your Azure cloud infrastructure and allow you to actively interact with your cloud infra. Any modification made to your cloud infra diagram can then be pushed online to scale your Azure infrastructure up or down.
Holori cloud diagramming software also evaluates the cost of your Azure architecture diagram. By selecting the icons of the products you require, Holori suggests the cheapest availability zone for your infra. Holori diagramming software is capable of benchmarking your current infra with multiple cloud providers as well. If you want to save time and costs, look no further and start using Holori architecture diagram tool today.