Simple Architecture

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20 lines of PlantUML, and pulls in Azure icons. Copy it, or open the template inside Gnomon and render it as it is.

@startuml
!define AzurePuml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plantuml-stdlib/Azure-PlantUML/release/2-2/dist
!include AzurePuml/AzureCommon.puml
!include AzurePuml/Compute/AzureVirtualMachine.puml
!include AzurePuml/Databases/AzureSqlDatabase.puml
!include AzurePuml/Storage/AzureBlobStorage.puml
!include AzurePuml/Networking/AzureLoadBalancer.puml

title Azure Simple Architecture

AzureLoadBalancer(lb, "Load Balancer", "Standard")
AzureVirtualMachine(vm, "Web Server", "D2s v3")
AzureSqlDatabase(db, "Database", "SQL Database")
AzureBlobStorage(storage, "Static Assets", "Blob Storage")

lb --> vm
vm --> db
vm --> storage

@enduml

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