Azure OpenAI Service

Azure OpenAI enterprise SLA + residency service.

Definition

Azure OpenAI features: Provisioned Throughput Units (PTU) for guaranteed latency SLA, Real-Time API GPT-4o Realtime, Assistants API, Vision (GPT-4o Vision), Embeddings (text-embedding-3-large/small/ada-002), DALL-E 3 image generation, Whisper transcription, fine-tuning, On Your Data (RAG via Azure AI Search, Cosmos DB MongoDB vCore, Pinecone, Elasticsearch).

Origin

Microsoft Azure + OpenAI partnership 2019 ($1B investment) + 2021 ($10B), Azure OpenAI Service preview November 2021, GA January 2023.

Usage

Preferred choice for Microsoft 365 / Azure enterprise customers requiring controlled data privacy vs direct OpenAI.

Related terms

• OpenAI Assistants API — modèles couverts.
• AWS Bedrock — concurrent direct.
• Vertex AI Generative — concurrent direct.