AZ3D: A Flatlander's Journey Beyond the Azure Portal

Like the inhabitants of Flatland discovering the third dimension, Azure architects often find themselves constrained by flat diagrams and tabular resource lists. AZ3D breaks through that limitation with a browser based 3D force driven graph explorer that transforms sprawling Azure estates into navigable interactive topology spacnoes.

What it does. AZ3D renders Azure resources as interactive 3D nodes with physics based layouts and intelligent label management. Import from multiple sources including az cli JSON output, Azure Resource Graph KQL queries or Mermaid diagrams. Navigate, filter and explore complex topologies through an interactive 3D web browser interface.

What you’ll see. Azure Landing Zones unfolding in three dimensions. Resources organize visibly across management groups, subscriptions and workloads. Complex multi subscription architectures become spatially navigable for security audits, architecture planning, collaborative sessions and live walkthroughs.

How it runs. Flexible deployment. Streamlined online version for easy embedding. Secure air-gapped mode for government and sovereign infrastructures. Self-contained standalone HTML with zero external dependencies.

The takeaway. See your infrastructure as it actually exists. Not as a flat list, but as a spatial system you can navigate, understand and communicate.

Audience. Cloud architects, DevOps engineers, security auditors and anyone managing complex Azure environments.

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sergiu-strat

Sergiu Strat


Sergiu Strat is a Solutions Architect with over 20 years of experience designing and operating infrastructures at scale. Currently consulting on enterprise Azure and Kubernetes deployments with an ...