Getting Started

Creating Microsoft Azure diagrams is straight forward; all the AWS service constructs are available from the Toolbox pages or from the Browser in the MS Azure Packages. This allows you to create expressive diagrams containing element items such as Virtual Machines, MS SQL databases, Cycle Cloud for big computer clusters, DevOps for code collaboration, Blob Storage and Managed Disks for data storage, and Load Balancers and Traffic Managers for networking.

Diagram showing a mobile application using a Smart Phone Traffic Manager and PostgreSQL Database

In this topic you will learn how to work with the features that support MS Azure diagramming, outlined in the topic sections.

Selecting the Perspective

Enterprise Architect partitions the tool's extensive features into Perspectives, which ensures that you can focus on a specific task and work with the tools you need without the distraction of other features. To work with the Microsoft Azure features you first need to select this Perspective:

<perspective name> > Analysis > Microsoft Azure

Setting the Perspective ensures that the Microsoft Azure diagrams, their tool boxes and other features of the Perspective will be available by default.

Example Diagram

An example diagram provides a visual introduction to the topic and allows you to see some of the important elements and connectors used when specifying or describing AWS cloud infrastructure.

Import the Microsoft Azure Patterns

Before you can start creating Microsoft Azure diagrams to specify or document your cloud services you will need first to import the graphics from a pattern.  This will inject all the Azure icons as components into the selected location in the Browser window.

Patterns window showing Azure pattern for Import.

Create Azure Diagrams

More Information

This section provides useful links to other topics and resources that you might find useful when working with the Microsoft Azure tool features.