“Build and Modernize AI Apps with Microsoft Azure” is now “Build AI Apps on Azure”

As of December 2024, the Build and Modernize AI Apps with Microsoft Azure specialization has been rebranded as "Build AI Apps on Azure" and now offers more services and products to be considered toward earning and maintaining eligibility. The threshold for the performance requirement increased from an average of $2,000* over the trailing three months to an average of $5,000. This increase is consistent across each layer of evaluation: Application Platform, Data Platform, and AI Platform. This ACR needs to come from at least three customers, consistent with the previous criteria.

The eligible services/products to meet these criteria are available under each of the following product areas:

• Application platform
  • App Platform Services: Azure App Service, Azure Spring Cloud
  • Container and Serverless Services: AKS, ARO, Azure Container Apps, Container Instances, Container Registry, Functions
  • Integration Services: API Management, BizTalk Services, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus
• Data platform
  • Cosmos DB: Cosmos DB
  • OSS DBs: MariaDB, MySQL, PGSQL
  • SQL DB: SQL DB, SQL DB MI
• AI platform
  • Azure AI Services: Academic Knowledge, Anomaly Detector, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Services, Bot Service, Content Moderator, Content Safety, Document Intelligence, Emotion, Health Bot, Health Insights, Immersive Reader, Ink Recognizer, Language, Metrics Advisor, Personalizer, Phi, Recognition, Recommendations, Search, Speech, Text Analytics, Translator, Video Analyzer, Video Indexer, Vision
  • Azure OpenAI: Azure OpenAI

*Throughout this page, $ refers to USD.