Enterprise Architect - User Guide Series - Microsoft Azure - Version 17.1 - Create Microsoft Azure Diagrams

Oct 25, 2026

Microsoft Azure is introduced as an enterprise cloud platform offering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications. The guide explains how Enterprise Architect supports expressive Azure diagrams using an Azure UML profile and a Model Builder pattern image library with 350+ image assets. It covers selecting the Microsoft Azure perspective, importing Azure patterns into the model, and creating diagrams via Model Builder and Diagram Toolbox workflows. It also outlines where Azure service constructs are found for building infrastructure views.

LanguageEnglish

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Pages11

Reading Time28 min

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Table of Contents

Getting Started

Example Diagram

Import the Microsoft Azure Patterns

Create Azure Diagrams

More Information

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT User Guide Series Microsoft Azure Author: Sparx Systems Date: 2026-05-27 Version: 17.1 CREATED WITH Table of Contents Microsoft Azure 3 Getting Started 4 Example Diagram 6 Import the Microsoft Azure Patterns7 Create Azure Diagrams 8 More Information 10 Microsoft Azure Create Microsoft Azure Diagrams that Specify and Document Azure Virtual Infrastructure Microsoft Azure (or simply Azure) is one of the market leaders in public Cloud computing platforms and provides services to define IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) Cloud environments. Azure entered the market in 2010 and has steadily grown in importance as a corporate Cloud solution. The platform is used for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers and supports many programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. Enterprise Architect provides modeling constructs that allow you to create expressive Azure diagrams that specify new Cloud infrastructure and platforms or document existing ones. You can also model other Cloud Infrastructure and platform providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GPC) . The Microsoft Azure UML profile provides a new image library of graphics (icons and images) required to model Microsoft Azure deployments. The icons and images are provided by a Model Builder framework pattern, which must be imported into your model before you can start creating diagrams that describe Microsoft Azure deployments. The Azure pattern contains over 350 Image Assets that can be dragged-and-dropped onto diagrams. (c) Sparx Systems 2026 Page 3 of 11 Created with Enterprise Architect 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: > 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. (c) Sparx Systems 2026 Page 4 of 11 Created with Enterprise Architect 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. (c) Sparx Systems 2026 Page 5 of 11 Created with Enterprise Architect Example Diagram (c)

FAQs

How do you select the Microsoft Azure perspective in Enterprise Architect?

Choose the Perspective path Analysis > Microsoft Azure so the Azure diagrams and related toolboxes are available by default.

What is required before creating Microsoft Azure diagrams?

Import the Microsoft Azure icons and images using the Model Builder, which injects Azure image assets into the selected Browser location.

How can you create an Azure diagram after importing the patterns?

Right-click the parent package, select New Diagram, open the Diagram Builder, set the diagram type using Azure options, then create the diagram by placing imported Azure library images from the Azure Library Packages.

Oct 25, 2026

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