Every Piece, How It Connects, and Why It Matters
Most businesses aren't "in the cloud" or "on-prem" — they're both, permanently. This diagram is built around the actual Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) curriculum, weighted the same way Microsoft weights it on the exam. Click any piece for what it does. Click "Azure Cloud" to open the four domains that make up a real architecture — identity, data, continuity, and infrastructure — and see how they depend on each other.
Inside Azure Cloud — the Four Architect Domains
Weighted exactly as Microsoft weights them on the AZ-305 exam. Open a domain, then click anything inside it.
Automation runs through all three connections, not just one. Azure Logic Apps or Power Automate route data between systems — a customer order placed on the website can update cloud records and notify the on-prem ERP in the same workflow, no one touching a keyboard. Azure Automation Runbooks, paired with a Hybrid Worker, let cloud-triggered jobs execute against on-prem infrastructure on a schedule — the cloud is the control plane even when the work happens on-prem.