Azure AI infrastructure
Power groundbreaking AI innovation with optimal performance and efficiency on purpose-built AI infrastructure.
Overview
Power groundbreaking AI with scalable and secure AI infrastructure
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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.
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).
AI model builders
Build, train, and deploy AI models on the same infrastructure used by OpenAI. Optimized at every layer, Azure AI infrastructure provides GPU-powered virtual machines with extreme throughput, highly reliable clusters, optimization frameworks, and accelerated networking, storage, and management services.
AI solution builders
Choose from AI models, pre-built AI services, libraires, and frameworks—or bring your own. Quickly fine-tune, deploy, and optimize AI solutions on Azure AI infrastructure with the latest in GPUs, networking, storage, orchestration services, built-in security, compliance, and responsible AI safeguards.
AI model consumers
Choose, provision, and manage AI models, agents, and apps easily with Azure AI Foundry, powered by Azure AI infrastructure. Develop your AI projects with off-the-shelf models, built-in security and safeguards, automatic scaling, and a comprehensive management suite.
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.
CUSTOMER STORIES
Powering AI innovation for companies large and small
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