Anyscale on Azure Enters Public Preview: Build and Deploy AI at Scale Inside Your Own Azure Tenant
Blog post from Anyscale
Anyscale on Azure, now in public preview, offers enterprises the ability to build and deploy AI workloads at scale within their own Azure environments, leveraging the open-source Ray compute engine. This integration, co-engineered with Microsoft, provides the same governance and operational controls as other Azure services and allows enterprises to use their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitments (MACC) for Anyscale's AI workloads. Anyscale's platform, which includes the Anyscale Runtime, Workspaces, and Agent Skills, is designed to handle GPU-accelerated tasks such as multimodal data processing, distributed training, and large-scale inference, which traditional cloud-native services struggle to support. Companies like Wayve and Xoople are utilizing Anyscale on Azure for complex AI tasks, such as autonomous driving AI and satellite imagery analysis, respectively. The service is seamlessly integrated with Azure's security, governance, and billing frameworks, allowing enterprises to manage AI workloads alongside their existing infrastructure without needing separate contracts.