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You can see region availability here for Azure OpenAI:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/o...

It's definitely limited, but there's currently more than one region available.

(I happen to be working at the moment on a location-related fix to our most popular Azure OpenAI sample, https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-openai-demo )

Probably compute-bound for inference which they've probably built in an arch-specific way, right? This sort of thing happens. You can't use AVX-512 in Alibaba Cloud cn-hongkong, for instance, because there's no processor available there that can reliably do that (no Genoa CPUs there). I imagine OpenAI has a similar constraint here.

Totally wrong, Azure has loads of regions. We’re using 3 in our app (UK, France and US East). It’s rapid.

ah i am out of date then. i was going off this page https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-... which until last month was showing only 1 region

Whoops, should confirm, we’re using turbo 3.5, not 4.