Azure AI Infrastructure

Overview

Power groundbreaking AI with scalable and secure AI infrastructure

Take advantage of Azure’s proven AI infrastructure to meet your specific AI needs, large or small. From training models to model distillation, fine tuning, and inference, Azure offers the right balance of performance, efficiency, and cost for your AI solutions.

Azure combines advanced compute, networking, and storage, to seamlessly deliver highly performant, secure, and scalable purpose-built AI Infrastructure to companies of all sizes.

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From silicon to software, our systems-approach optimizes every layer of the technology stack—giving you unparalleled AI performance.

Choose virtual machines optimized for AI. Eliminate bottlenecks with advanced networking and optimize performance with Azure Boost. Use responsible resources designed for energy efficiency with innovative cooling technologies.

With over 60 datacenter regions, more than any other cloud provider, Azure meets the needs of users worldwide.

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Confidently build AI solutions on a trusted, proven platform. Azure provides scalable clusters with robust checkpointing for consistent, resilient performance across GPU-based virtual machines.

With hardware-rooted security, your data is safeguarded in use, in motion, and at rest. Your data is yours, never used to train other models.

Responsible AI guardrails integrated across the Azure AI stack and help prevent harmful content and promote ethical, human-centered interactions.

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Build, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI fast and efficiently with seamless integration with Azure and third-party AI tools and services. Streamline data flow and resource sharing to maximize performance across AI workflows.

Innovate fast with Azure AI Foundry, powered by Azure AI infrastructure, with a broad selection of customizable models and AI services. Build and scale AI solutions in your preferred languages, frameworks, and environments seamlessly and with enhanced flexibility.

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PRODUCTS and USE CASES

Your foundation for innovation

Azure virtual machines powered by GPUs

Power your AI ambitions with highly scalable, GPU-optimized virtual machines specifically architected to boost AI performance and efficiency.

Azure accelerated networking

Improve data transfer speed and model training efficiency with high-bandwidth, low-latency inter-GPU communication.

Azure high-performance storage

Meet the data storage, access, and transfer demands of AI with Azure storage solutions.

Azure security services

Take advantage of Azure’s built-in security and compliance standards, as well as services such as Azure Key Vault and Confidential Compute.

Azure management services

Easily monitor and optimize your AI workloads with Azure CycleCloud, Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm, Azure Monitor, Azure Batch, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Partnering for innovation

Microsoft collaborates closely with other leading AI technology providers like NVIDIA and AMD to deliver the most performant and efficient AI infrastructure.

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CUSTOMER STORIES

Powering AI innovation for companies large and small

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“As a live in-person experience platform, time is our enemy. We win by combining powerful compute, efficient models, and smart creative approaches.”

Conrad Blight, Chief Sales Officer, HyperCinema

““With Azure AI infrastructure, we can deploy more sophisticated machine learning models that search data more efficiently and effectively…”

Caroline McKee, Senior Software Engineer (Machine Learning), NBA

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“Having all the scaling and security capabilities around the models and the ability to spin up the rest of our infrastructure around Harvey in every region has been super valuable.”

Gabe Pereyra, Cofounder and President, Harvey