Solution brief AI Azure Framework
By Insight Editor / 15 Apr 2025 / Topics: Generative AI , Microsoft Azure
Key takeaways
- Secured and Compliant Azure Foundation: Builds a best-practice, risk-mitigated Azure Landing Zone aligned with Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework to address public sector security, compliance, and governance concerns.
- Accelerated AI Enablement: Simplifies integration and empowers development teams to quickly build custom apps and Copilots using Azure OpenAI Service through seamless APIs.
- Structured Three-Phase Deployment: Executes through a clear approach—Kickoff, Design, and Build & Configure—handling up to four Azure subscriptions with cost optimization and tagging schemas.
The challenge
Now is the time for agencies to take advantage of AI capabilities such as those available in Azure® OpenAI®. Yet the cloud and data foundation needed for AI success can be an incredibly complicated path. From security and compliance concerns to managing and distributing costs to finding your agency’s balance between stability and scalability, ensuring a cloud foundation that fits your AI objectives and mitigates risk potential is critical and requires expert guidance.
How we help
The Azure OpenAI Cloud Foundation leverages Insight’s deep cloud expertise and Microsoft best practices to help you lay the groundwork for a high-value, risk-mitigated OpenAI experience that can quickly enable your development teams and meet your needs. Combining design, deployment, and in-depth knowledge transfer, our teams will deliver your agency a best-practice, secured, and cost-optimized Azure Landing Zone built around our strategic Cloud Adoption Framework.
Our approach
Design
Together, our teams will discuss immediate goals and strategic considerations and review and confirm the following:
- Azure Landing Zone design
- Tagging schema
- Availability of subscription, accounts, licenses, and access
Kickoff
In this phase, we'll identify the project team members and align on project objectives, roles, and responsibilities.
Build & configure
Insight architects and client team members will coordinate deployment, including up to four Azure subscriptions.
Benefits
- Enhance cloud security and scalability.
- Expand cloud capabilities with Azure OpenAI.
- Ensure compliant, responsible AI use.
- Make integration easy with seamless API.
- Enable more strategic use of AI capabilities.
Why Insight?
Insight Enterprises is a leading Solutions Integrator that helps clients solve technology challenges by combining the right hardware, software, and services. As a Fortune 500 technology company, backed by 35+ years of expertise and a deep network of 6,000+ partners, we deliver secure, end-to-end IT solutions for organizations around the world.
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