6 days ago · Azure AI Search is a fully managed, cloud-hosted service that connects your data to AI. The service unifies access to enterprise and web content so agents and LLMs can use context, chat …

Learn how to set up an Azure AI Search service in the Azure portal. Choose a resource group, region, and pricing tier.

Learn how to use Azure AI Search for information retrieval at scale, with support for text, vector, and multimodal content in traditional and generative search scenarios.

Dec 5, 2025 · Learn how to create, load, and query your first search index using an import wizard in the Azure portal. This quickstart uses a fictitious hotel dataset for sample data.

Azure AI Search provides information retrieval and uses optional AI integration to extract more value from text and vector content. The following table summarizes features by category.

In this quickstart, you use PowerShell and the Azure AI Search REST APIs to create, load, and query a search index for full-text search. Full-text search uses Apache Lucene for indexing and queries and …

Nov 10, 2025 · Learn about billable events, the billing model, and tips for cost control when running an Azure AI Search service.

Associating a user-assigned managed identity with an Azure AI Search service is supported in the Azure portal, Search Management REST APIs, and SDK packages that provide the feature.

In Azure AI Search, AI processing occurs during indexing (or data ingestion). This part of the walkthrough creates four objects: data source, index definition, skillset, indexer.

Learn how to deploy an Azure AI Search service instance using an Azure Resource Manager template.