Azure Machine Learning
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/machine-learning
Microsoft Azure's managed ML platform — pipelines, AutoML, Designer, prompt flow (LLM). Heavy integration with Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Studio.
Active · Verified 2026-10-27 · fresh as of 2026-10-27 · 14 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Azure ML platform vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Training infrastructure
- Latest release
- v1.35.2 (2026-10-12) — azure-ai-ml registry fix
- License
- proprietary; Python SDK (azure-ai-ml) MIT registry fix
- GitHub
- searched not found vendor fix
- Pricing
- No additional charge for Azure Machine Learning; pay for underlying compute and other Azure services consumed vendor fix
- Funding
- searched not found fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- model-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial registry fix
When to use
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Pros & cons
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Technical surface
- API surface
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- Backend storage
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- Deployment
- Managed-only — Azure
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
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- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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- Argilla T2
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Sources (13 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Azure ML platform vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Microsoft Azure's managed ML platform — pipelines, AutoML, Designer, prompt flow (LLM). … vendor
- Created 2015 vendor
- Latest release v1.35.2 (2026-10-12) — azure-ai-ml registry
- License proprietary; Python SDK (azure-ai-ml) MIT registry
- Customers / scale ASOS, Bayer, BP, Carnival, Chevron, KPMG, Walgreens, ZF Group; Microsoft Azure flagship … vendor
- Pricing No additional charge for Azure Machine Learning; pay for underlying compute and other Az… vendor
- Deployment Managed-only — Azure vendor
- HQ US (Microsoft) vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial registry
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup model-infra repo
What changed
Changes to this record's lifecycle, licence, release, pricing and hosting facts, from the catalog's git history. Subscribe (Atom)
- 2026-10-27
- License first recorded as “proprietary; Python SDK (azure-ai-ml) MIT” source
- Latest release first recorded as “v1.35.2 (2026-10-12) — azure-ai-ml” source
- Pricing first recorded as “No additional charge for Azure Machine Learning; pay for underlying compute and other Azure services consumed” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Managed-only — Azure” source
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