Azure AI Resource Types

In Azure there are a lot of services that fall into the AI category, these include:

• Azure Open AI

• Azure AI Foundry

• Azure Bot Service

• Azure Machine Learning

• Foundry Tools

  • AI Content Safety

  • AI Document Intelligence

  • AI Language

  • Foundry IQ / AI Search

  • AI Speech

  • AI Translator

  • AI Vision

The below diagram represents them

Related Services

If we think of the wider eco-system then the technology estate also adds the following services to the architecture.

Hosting & execution

• App Service (bot/portal hosting)

• Azure Function Apps (orchestration, event-driven execution)

• Azure Container Apps / AKS (containerized agents, custom inference)

API & integration

• Azure API Management (proxying/rate-limiting model access)

• Azure Logic Apps (integration workflows)

• Azure Service Bus (queuing)

• Azure Event Grid (event-driven triggers)

Data & storage

• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

• Azure Blob Storage

• Azure Cosmos DB

• Azure SQL Database

• Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Data Factory, Lakehouse/Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence)

Identity & security

• Microsoft Entra ID

• Azure Key Vault

• Azure Private Link / VNet

Governance & observability

• Azure Monitor / Application Insights

• Microsoft Purview

Representing these additional services in our architecture would look like the following diagram.