Manage Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned Reservations

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This episode of the Azure Essentials Show covers essential strategies for managing Azure Open AI Service reservations, focusing on cost optimization and performance reliability. Thomas Maurer and Priyanshi Mittal discuss the benefits of using Provisioned Throughput Units (PTUs) for predictable performance and consistent latency, especially for production generative AI applications. Priyanshi explains how customers can save money by purchasing Azure reservations and provides detailed guidance on exchanging reservations, updating scopes, and setting up renewals. The discussion also highlights that these management tasks apply to all Azure reservation services, including virtual machines, storage, and SQL!

Resources
• Save costs with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned Reservations – Microsoft Cost Management https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/cost-management-billing/reservations/azure-openai
• Automatically renew Azure reservations – Microsoft Cost Management https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/cost-management-billing/reservations/reservation-renew
• Manage Azure Reservations – Microsoft Cost Management https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/cost-management-billing/reservations/manage-reserved-vm-instance#change-the-reservation-scope
• Blog: Manage and monitor your provisioned reservation https://aka.ms/azure-pricing-PTU-reservation-exchange-blog
• Explore more Azure Essentials resources! https://azure.com/AzureEssentials

Related episodes
• Deploy OpenAI Services at Scale Using Provision Throughput Units https://aka.ms/azenable/163
• Monitor Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned Reservations https://aka.ms/AzEssentials/203
• Understand Azure Pricing & Resources https://aka.ms/azenable/163

Connect
• Aaron Stark https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-kiyaani-mcclary-b71009106
• Priyanshi Mittal https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyanshi90

Chapters
0:00 In this episode
0:15 Introduction
0:50 Overview of Provisioned Throughput Units
1:15 Added benefits
1:32 Proper management is crucial
2:05 Exchanging reservations
2:26 Example
3:22 Demo
4:19 Changing scope
4:46 Demo
5:15 Renewals
6:00 Demo
6:43 Same process for other types of reservations Read More Microsoft Developer