Are Microsoft Azure Cognitive services available on AzureStack? - azure

I'm planning to showcase exciting end user use-cases in AzureStack to potential customers.
This is an idea exploration.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/directory/
I expect Microsoft Azure Cognitive services to be available on AzureStack for Enterprise use-cases.
From my initial search on AzureStack Marketplace items from Azure I could not find Cognitive Services for AzureStack. What is the roadmap to bring these services to AzureStack in the future?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-stack/azure-stack-marketplace-azure-items
Please help. Thanks.

All APIs on cognitive services here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/directory/ are on Azure. In fact, you buy access keys for these APIs from Azure portal: https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.CognitiveServicesBingSearch-v7.

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