If you are innovating with AI, Azure is the cloud platform to build on. Apps are the business-critical, digital front door for many businesses. The digital-first nature of modern business has effectively made almost every company into a software company. Now, almost every company will be an AI company, too, as companies differentiate products and digital customer experiences with AI-powered, intelligent apps.
Azure offers a full, integrated stack purpose-built for intelligent applications, giving you a competitive edge and superior performance. This includes a cloud app platform, data at scale, and pretrained and responsible AI – the building blocks for scalable and high-performance intelligent apps.
Organizations experience faster time to market, lower latency and improved security when their AI app stack is built on Azure. With Azure you can leverage provisioned throughput to scale seamlessly as your app grows. You’ll benefit from a world-class infrastructure and security to safeguard your data, and enhance the reliability of your generative AI applications, while leveraging the speed of Azure Cosmos DB to retrieve and process data. Create more responsive, higher-performing gen AI apps by connecting Azure Cosmos DB with Azure AI atop the scalable platform of Azure Kubernetes Service. This enables instant access and delivery of real-time information in powerful new ways.
To help you on this journey, we are happy to introduce an offer to help new and existing Azure AI and GitHub Copilot customers save when using Azure Cosmos DB, by providing 40,000 Request Units per second (RU/s)[1] of Azure Cosmos DB for for 90 days. This is the equivalent of up to $6,000 in savings[2] for a customer.
To be eligible for the offer[3], customers must use GitHub Copilot or Azure AI services in their subscription, and create a new Azure Cosmos DB database account and must enroll in offer within 30 days of account creation. After the 90 day trial period, customers will continue to run their application at the normal Azure Cosmos DB pricing.
Azure AI services and GitHub Copilot customers deploying their intelligent apps to Azure Kubernetes Service may be eligible for additional discounts. Speak to your Microsoft representative to learn more.
In addition, today we are announcing the expansion of the Copilot Copyright Commitment, now called Customer Copyright Commitment (CCC), to customers using the Azure OpenAI Service. By extending the CCC to Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft is broadening our commitment to defend our commercial customers and pay for any adverse judgments if they are sued for copyright infringement for using the outputs generated by Azure OpenAI Service. As part of this expansion, we’ve published new documentation to help Azure OpenAI Service customers implement technical measures and other best practices to mitigate the risk of infringing content. Customers will need to comply with the documentation to take advantage of the benefit.
[1] Request units in Azure Cosmos DB provide customers with transactions and other actions.
[2] $6,000 savings figure is estimated by a customer using approximately 40,000 RU/s for a 90 day period for stable database usage. Customers will still be responsible for paying for the Azure services that provide eligibility for this offer, which include Azure AI Services (including Azure OpenAI Service), Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Search) and/or GitHub Copilot.
[3] Terms & conditions: Offer available to all Azure customers who are using or will use Azure AI Services (including Azure OpenAI Service), Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Search) and/or GitHub Copilot. Offer provides 40,000 RU/s for free for a 90 day period. Offer only available where Azure Cosmos DB available. Customers must create a new Azure Cosmos DB account and register via Microsoft Form at https://aka.ms/AzureAIAdvantageSignupForm. Time period: the last day for customers to opt-in for the offer via the signup form is June 30, 2024.