What is Azure OpenAI Service?
Azure OpenAI Service is a Microsoft Azure offering that gives businesses API access to OpenAI models, such as GPT language models and embedding models, running inside Azure. Microsoft also presents it as part of its broader Azure AI platform tooling, with Azure security, private networking, regional hosting and content filtering applied.
Why it matters for your business
It lets companies already standardized on Azure build generative AI features under their existing identity, network and compliance controls instead of sending data to a separate vendor account.
A legal services firm deploys a GPT model through Azure OpenAI in its own Azure region and connects it to a search index of contracts so staff can ask questions about clause wording.