Azure architecture icons
Helping our customers design solutions is core to the Azure Architecture Center's mission. Architecture diagrams like those included in our guidance can help communicate design decisions and the relationships between components of a given workload. On this page, you'll find an official collection of Azure architecture icons including Azure product icons to help you build a custom architecture diagram for your next solution.
To learn more about communicating design intent, see Architecture design diagrams in the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
General guidelines
Do's
- Use the icon to illustrate how products can work together.
- In diagrams, we recommend including the product name somewhere close to the icon.
- Use the icons as they would appear within Azure.
Don'ts
- Don't crop, flip, or rotate icons.
- Don't distort or change icon shape in any way.
- Don't use Microsoft product icons to represent your product or service.
Example architecture diagrams
Browse all Azure architectures to view other examples.
Icon updates
| Month | Change description |
|---|---|
| November 2024 | Added 10 new icons such as Azure AI Studio, Azure landing zone, Azure VPN client, and Azure Managed Redis. |
| July 2024 | Rebranded more Microsoft Entra ID icons. Added new icons such as AI Content Safety, AKS Automatic, Application Gateway for Containers, and Azure Monitor Pipeline. |
| February 2024 | Over 40 new icons for various services and components such as AI (including Azure OpenAI), Azure Operator, Microsoft Entra ID, and Azure networking. |
| August 2023 | Added new Microsoft Entra ID icon. Reorganized folder structure of some icons. |
| June 2023 | General updates. |
| April 2023 | Added 24 Microsoft Defender for IoT icons. |
| March 2023 | Added 13 icons for various services and components. |
| January 2023 | Added ~106 icons for various services and components. |
| November 2022 | Updated icon names from Azure Security Center to Microsoft Defender for Cloud. |
| January 2021 | Added ~26 icons to the existing set. |
| November 2020 | The folder structure of our collection of Azure architecture icons has changed. The FAQs and Terms of Use PDF files appear in the first level when you download the SVG icons. The files in the icons folder are the same except there's no longer a CXP folder. |
Icon terms
Microsoft permits the use of these icons in architectural diagrams, training materials, or documentation. You may copy, distribute, and display the icons only for the permitted use unless granted explicit permission by Microsoft. Microsoft reserves all other rights.
Use in Microsoft Visio
The icons are not provided in Visio stencil format. The icons are provided as general purpose SVG files. You can drag and drop these icons into many diagraming and drawing tools, including Visio. There are no plans to provide these icons as Visio stencils.