Announcing caller features designed to further heighten information privateness and information capabilities for customers gathering and scaling with Azure OpenAI.

In today’s rapidly evolving integer landscape, information privateness and information are paramount for enterprises. As organizations progressively leverage AI to thrust innovation, Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service offers robust endeavor controls that conscionable the highest standards of information and compliance. Built connected Azure’s backbone, Azure OpenAI tin integrate with your organization’s tools to assistance guarantee you person the close guardrails successful place. That is wherefore customers similar KPMG, Heineken, Unity, PWC, and more person chosen Azure OpenAI for their generative AI applications.

We are excited to denote caller features designed to further heighten information privateness and information capabilities for implicit 60,000 customers gathering and scaling with Azure OpenAI.

Announcing Azure OpenAI Data Zones

From Day 0, Azure OpenAI provided data residency with power of information processing and retention crossed our existing 28 antithetic regions. Today, we are announcing Azure OpenAI Data Zones for the European Union and United States. Variances successful model-region availability person historically required customers to negociate aggregate resources and way postulation betwixt them, slowing improvement and complicating management. This diagnostic simplifies generative AI exertion absorption by offering the flexibility of determination information processing portion maintaining information residency wrong those geographic boundaries, giving customers easier entree to models and higher throughput.

Enterprises trust connected Azure for information privateness and information residency

The caller Data Zones diagnostic builds connected the existing spot of Azure OpenAI’s information processing and retention options. Azure OpenAI provides customers with the choices betwixt Global, Data Zone, and Regional deployments. This allows customers to amended throughput, exemplary availability, and simplified management. With each deployment selections, information is stored astatine remainder wrong the Azure chosen portion of your resource.

1. Global deployments: Available successful implicit 25 regions, this enactment offers entree to each caller models (including o1 series) astatine the lowest terms with the highest throughputs. Data is stored astatine remainder wrong the lawsuit selected portion of the Azure resource, portion the planetary backbone ensures optimized effect times.
2. Data Zones: Introducing Data Zones for customers who request greater information processing assurances portion accessing the latest models, combined with the flexibility of transverse portion load balancing wrong the lawsuit selected geographic boundary. The United States Data Zone spans each Azure OpenAI regions wrong the United States. The European Union Data Zone spans each Azure OpenAI regions located wrong the European Union subordinate states. The caller Azure Data Zones deployment benignant volition beryllium disposable successful the coming month.
3. Regional deployments: For the strictest levels of information control, determination deployments guarantee processing and retention hap wrong the resource’s geography. This enactment offers the astir constricted exemplary availability compared to Global and Data Zone deployments.

Since our launch, customers get granular power implicit their information processing and retention locations upholding Azure’s Data residency promises.

Securely extending generative AI applications with your data

Azure OpenAI integrates effortlessly with hundreds of Azure and Microsoft services that alteration you to widen your solution with your existing information retention and hunt capabilities. The 2 astir communal extensions are Azure AI Search and Microsoft Fabric.

Azure AI search provides unafraid accusation retrieval astatine standard implicit customer-owned contented successful accepted and generative AI applications. This allows papers hunt and information exploration to provender query results into prompts, grounding generative AI applications connected your information portion maintaining Azure scale, security, and control.

Microsoft Fabric’s unified information lake, OneLake enables entree to organizations full multi-cloud information property from a single, intuitively organized information lake. Bringing each institution information into a azygous information water simplifies the integration of information to substance your generative AI application, portion upholding institution information governance and compliance controls.

Enterprises trust connected Azure for safety, security, and compliance

Content Safety by Default

Azure OpenAI comes integrated with Azure AI Content Safety by default astatine nary further cost, ensuring that some prompts and completions are filtered done an ensemble of classification models to observe and forestall harmful content. Azure provides the widest scope of contented information tools, including the caller prompt shield and groundedness detection capabilities. Customers with precocious requirements tin customize these settings, including adjusting harm severity oregon enabling asynchronous modes for little latency.

Secure entree with Managed Identity done Entra ID

Microsoft recommends securing your Azure OpenAI resources with Microsoft Entra ID to make zero-trust entree controls, preventing individuality attacks and managing entree to resources. By implementing least-privilege principles, enterprises tin guarantee stringent information policies. Entra ID besides eliminates the request for hard-coded credentials, further enhancing information crossed the solution.

Additionally, Managed Identity integrates seamlessly with Azure role-based entree control (RBAC), providing precise power implicit assets permissions.

Enhanced information information with customer-managed cardinal encryption

The information stored by Azure OpenAI successful your subscription is encrypted by default utilizing a Microsoft-managed key. To further heighten the information of your application, Azure OpenAI enables customers to bring their ain Customer-Managed Keys for encrypting information stored connected the Microsoft-managed resources, including Azure Cosmos DB, Azure AI Search, oregon your Azure Storage account.

Enhanced information with backstage networking

Secure your AI applications by isolating them from the nationalist net utilizing Azure virtual networks and Azure Private Link. This setup ensures that postulation betwixt services remains wrong Microsoft’s backbone network, allowing unafraid connections to on-premises resources via ExpressRoute, VPN tunnels, and peered virtual networks.

Last week we besides announced the merchandise of backstage networking enactment for the AI Studio—enabling users to usage precocious “add your data” features via our Studio UI without sending postulation implicit a nationalist network.

Commitment to compliance

We are committed to supporting the compliance requirements of our customers crossed regulated industries including healthcare, finance, and government. Azure OpenAI already meets a wide scope of industry standards and certifications, including HIPAA, SOC 2, and FedRAMP, ensuring that enterprises crossed industries tin spot their AI solutions to stay unafraid and compliant.

Enterprises spot Azure reliability for accumulation level scale

The Azure OpenAI work is trusted by galore of the world’s largest generative AI applications contiguous including GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Microsoft Security Copilot. Our ain merchandise teams and customers take Azure OpenAI due to the fact that we connection an manufacture starring 99.9% reliability SLA connected some the Paygo Standard and Provisioned Managed offerings. We are making that adjacent amended with a caller latency SLA.

Announcing caller features: Latency SLAs with Provisioned-Managed

Enabling customers to standard up with their merchandise maturation without compromising connected latency is important to guarantee the prime of your lawsuit experience. Our Provisioned-Managed (PTUM) deployment benignant already offers the top standard with debased latency. We are excited to denote a ceremonial latency service level agreements (SLAs) wrong PTUM, providing assurances for show astatine scale. These SLAs volition rotation retired successful the coming month. Bookmark our merchandise newsfeed for more updates and enhancements.

Azure OpenAI continues to beryllium the generative AI level of prime that customers tin trust, gathering connected Azure’s agelong past of robust information privateness and residency, information and security, and reliability that customers trust connected each day. The information and information of your applications remains our highest priority.

Check retired further AI resources

• Learn much astir Azure Data, privacy, and security.
• Learn much astir Azure deployment types.
• Explore the Azure OpenAI Service Documentation.
• Discover the champion practices and solutions utilizing AI with Azure Cosmos DB.