since the structural change of the QnA Maker using Azure Search I recognized the only location to choose for the cognitive service is "US West". The app service and search service belonging to it can still be located anywhere.
Is this working as intended? If so, does the knowledge base of the QnA Maker Service belong to the region of the QnA Maker Service (US West) or does it belong to the region of the App / Search Service (e. g. Western Europe). Where is the data stored and which information reach the service located in "US West"?
Thanks in advance for your replies.
Best regards,
Alexander
Officially, QnA Maker product is available in many Azure Regions (see capture below, from official site here)
But as you mentioned, the location of the endpoint for the administration part seems restricted to West US only:
the QnA Maker v4 API console tester is only available in West US: https://westus.dev.cognitive.microsoft.com/docs/services/5a93fcf85b4ccd136866eb37/operations/5ac266295b4ccd1554da75ff
In Azure Portal, when you create a QnA Maker resource, you can only choose West US for the Location field
Unlike LUIS, there is no eu portal (https://eu.luis.ai/)
So all the Knowledge base "administration" is through this region, on Microsoft side.
To reply to the following question:
Where is the data stored and which information reach the service
located in "US West"?
You must remember the QnA Maker architecture (since v4) which is the following:
In the end, your data is
You can check in the Azure Search resource that is created with your QnA Maker Service. See the capture below from one of my projects, you can browse the indexes and see your documents in the region you want, in your own subscription:
Previously, before the GA, the data was... on Microsoft subscription?
The answer from Nicolas R is correct.
Here is a summary statement which I've confirmed with Microsoft (12th of January 2020):
Only the QnAMaker management service is deployed in West US. This powers the management APIs and the portal. There is no customer data stored in the management service. The data and the runtime are hosted in the region of the user’s choice as per the App service and Azure search deployments.
This statement might come handy dealing with such customer requests. Still, it comes without a guarantee and things might change/improve in the future.
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I want to test some Azure AD features on Azure US government, but I don't know how. For normal azure active directory, I would go to demo.microsoft.com and create a tenant.
There, the only government related option is "World Wide Government" but there is nothing suggesting that it is actually on Azure Government cloud.
Also, after creating the tenant it says that it is in North America with "World Wide Government" content pack, which to me it means that it is on normal Azure.
So basically, the question is where to create a demo account and how to log in to the portal (is it still portal.azure.com)?
Go here and setup a free trial for Azure Government: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/government/request/
I want to deploy our SharePoint remote event receiver inside an Azure web app. but when i create a new web app i got 2 subscriptions ("Microsoft Azure" OR "Pay-As-You-Go"), as follow:-
So i am not sure what are the main differences between these 2 subscriptions?
second question; which one is more suitable for hosting SharePoint remote event receivers?
Pay as you go is just like it says, you pay for only the services that you use, based on the pricing for that service. More info here.
A subscription is as described here "a logical grouping of Azure services that is linked to an Azure account. A single Azure account can contain multiple subscriptions. Billing for Azure services is done on a per-subscription basis. For a list of the available subscription offers by type, see Microsoft Azure Offer Details"
You have two subscriptions set up. On is a pay as you go subscription, and one is another type, although I'm not sure what. There should be no difference which one you select from a technical standpoint. It is only a matter of how you want to be billed. Azure web apps have a free tier as well.
There is no technical difference between the two subscriptions. There might be a difference with regards to support levels or service level agreements (SLAs), e.g. if one of them is a Dev/Test subscription. There might be a difference in "purpose" - one might be exclusively for "production use cases", while the other might be for testing. There is no way for us to know.
You really should ask the person responsible for the Azure subscriptions on which one you should use. If you set them up yourself, you take a more detailed look at the subscriptions themselves.
I'm trying to create a Form recogniser solution for a use case and got approval for preview. But I'm not able to select the location while creating my resource from Azure Portalenter image description here
Form Recognizer is currently available in West US 2 and West Europe locations only, with regional availability expanding in the near future.
Please make sure you are signed into the Azure Portal with the same subscription ID provided in the access request form. If you have several subscription IDs please use switch directory in the portal to switch to the whitelisted subscription.
We are creating a bot using QnAMaker service and would like to know if we can deploy the service as a cognitive service in our own azure subscription. Currently, we do not see the option to deploy it in custom azure subscription and it seems QnA Maker is deployed by itself.
Is QnA Maker service deployed in multiple regions?
The question arises as we would like to know the deployment and load balancing of the QnAMaker service to better optimize our bot deployment.
QnA Maker is GA since May 7, 2018. With GA the architecture of QnA Maker changed.
QnA Maker announced General Availability on May 7, 2018 at the \build\ conference. QnA Maker GA has a new architecture built on Azure. Knowledge bases created with QnA Maker Free Preview will need to be migrated to QnA Maker GA. QnA Maker Preview will be deprecated in November 2018. For more information about the changes in QnA Maker GA, see the QnA Maker GA announcement blog post.
You are now forced to host QnA Maker on you own Azure subscription which will provision a bunch of azure resources and of course will cost money now.
In case you need to migrate your existing preview QnA Maker, here is the documentation for it.
Is QnA Maker service deployed in multiple regions?
No, right now QnA Maker API is only available in westus region. However, the resources provisioned by QnA Maker, mainly Azure Search under the hood, are available in many other regions. So while the API endpoint it self is in westus, the rest of your resources can be hosted in other regions.
Disclaimer: I'm not working for Microsoft, so this information might be out-of-date already. Maybe somebody from Microsoft can confirm all of this.
I have azure account and some services created on it(web app, database and server, web service and storage account), and noticed that some accounts are created on Europe North and others on Europe West farms. I wanted to move everything, or recreate on Europe West, but run into a problem when creating classic storage account. When I want to create classic storage account in Europe West location, I get the message "The selected pricing tier is not supported in this location". I have a B1 Basic service plan(tried to switch it to S1 but it didn't help). The thing that is bothering me is that my colleague tried to create the same thing from his azure account and he was able to do it. Also, I tried doing the same from my private account(account that it's not working for is company's account), and was also able to do it. I have Pay-as-you-go pricing plan on company's account. I seem to be missing something here and I'm simply not experienced enough in configuring azure, and couldn't find the solution by googling. I appreciate your help.
Please create a ticket with Billing Support via Azure Portal. They should be able to help you with this.
So I finally got the solution. b0rg was on a right track. So when I posted the problem here, I was in contact with MS partner company, and they told me that for some reason, when my account was created, options for some locations weren't enabled by default, and I should create a free billing support ticket through azure portal. So I did that. Told them what MS partner told me, and within 2 working days they just enabled the options and now I can create the storage in Europe West location. Microsoft.... :/