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Azure OpenAI Service is an AI-powered generative service that enables organizations to deploy and use OpenAI models within Azure to understand, generate, and reason over text and other content. Read more about the service at How-to: Create and deploy an Azure OpenAI in Azure AI Foundry Models resource - Azure OpenAI | Microsoft Learn
Create a resource
The following steps show how to create an Azure OpenAI resource in the Azure portal.
Identify the resource
Sign in with your Azure subscription in the Azure portal https://portal.azure.com/.
Select Create a resource and search for the Azure OpenAI. When you locate the service, select Create.
On the Create Azure OpenAI page, provide the following information for the fields on the Basics tab:
Subscription
The Azure subscription used in your Azure OpenAI onboarding application.
Resource group
The Azure resource group to contain your Azure OpenAI resource. You can create a new group or use a pre-existing group.
Region
The location of your instance. Different locations can introduce latency, but they don't affect the runtime availability of your resource.
Name
A descriptive name for your Azure OpenAI resource, such as MyOpenAIResource.
Pricing Tier
The pricing tier for the resource. Currently, only the Standard tier is available for the Azure OpenAI. For more info on pricing visit the Azure OpenAI pricing page
Select Next.
Configure network security
The Network tab presents three options for the security Type:
Option 1: All networks, including the internet, can access this resource.
Option 2: Selected networks, configure network security for your Foundry Tools resource.
Option 3: Disabled, no networks can access this resource. You could configure private endpoint connections that will be the exclusive way to access this resource.
Depending on the option you select, you might need to provide additional information.
Confirm the configuration and create the resource
Select Next and configure any Tags for your resource, as desired.
Select Next to move to the final stage in the process: Review + submit.
Confirm your configuration settings and select Create.
The Azure portal displays a notification when the new resource is available. Select Go to resource.
Deploy a model
Next, an AI model will need to be deployed:
Go to Azure OpenAI Studio.
Select your Active Directory and Subscription.
Choose the resource you created.
Click “Deployments” → “Create new deployment”.
Select a model (e.g., gpt-35-turbo, gpt-4, or o4-mini).
Configure the following fields:
Deployment name
Choose a name carefully. The deployment name is used in your code to call the model by using the client libraries and the REST APIs.
Deployment type
Standard, Global-Batch, Global-Standard, Provisioned-Managed. Learn more about deployment type options.
Once configured click “Create” to deploy.
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