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Microsoft Cloud AI Developer Services (Legacy)

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in Cloud AI Developer Services (Transitioning to AI Coding Agents and Cloud-Native Application Platforms)
4.8

Overview

Product Information on Microsoft Cloud AI Developer Services (Legacy)

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Microsoft Cloud AI Developer Services (Legacy)?

Microsoft Cloud AI Developer Services (Legacy) is a software suite designed to facilitate the integration of artificial intelligence capabilities into applications through cloud-based APIs and SDKs. The software provides tools for implementing features such as computer vision, speech recognition, language understanding, and decision-making functionalities. Businesses use this software to automate processes, enhance user experiences, and extract insights from data using pre-built AI models and customizable machine learning platforms. By offering scalable infrastructure and development tools, the software addresses challenges related to deploying intelligent solutions, managing large datasets, and maintaining security and compliance in cloud environments.

Microsoft Cloud AI Developer Services (Legacy) Pricing

Microsoft Cloud AI Developer Services (Legacy) software employs a pay-as-you-go pricing model where charges are based on the volume of usage and the type of AI functionality accessed. The software typically offers several tiers with different usage limits and associated costs, allowing users to select options based on resource requirements and consumption levels.

Overall experience with Microsoft Cloud AI Developer Services (Legacy)

Director of Product
3B - 10B USD, Media
FAVORABLE

“Partnering with Azure enables us to generate a data lake of time-based metadata.”

5.0
Dec 24, 2022
Utilizing Azure Cognitive Services we were able to index long form video content at scale and found the image recognition and tagging capabilities superb for generating large amounts of accurate time-based metadata.
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Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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Microsoft Cloud AI Developer Services (Legacy) Likes & Dislikes

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Image recognition, celebrity face detection, and speech to text.

Like

1) ability to evaluate/test performance of multiple leading algorithms 2) image labeling tools are integrated into platform 3) platforms supports the end to end process of creating and deploying a new computer vision classifier

Like

Breadth of features and simplicity of implementation.

Dislike

Logo recognition seems to lag behind Azure's competitors and is a highly requested feature from our users. It would have been nice to have more capabilities related to audio, such as being able to index a specific audio track. Azure Video Indexer generates quite a lot of images and better controls over those images could offer a lot of value for other applications of the images without having to generate more.

Dislike

In support of creating a dataset to support model training, inability to select a subset of images from a master repository of images (via something like a manifest file or image list) ... need to actually make copies of the image files of interest and move them into the dataset. this is time consuming and requires the retention of duplicate copies of the same file.

Dislike

Feature-parity in a secure cloud environment is lagging.

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  • Director of Product
    1B-10B USD
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    Partnering with Azure enables us to generate a data lake of time-based metadata.

    5.0
    Dec 23, 2022
    Utilizing Azure Cognitive Services we were able to index long form video content at scale and found the image recognition and tagging capabilities superb for generating large amounts of accurate time-based metadata.
  • Sr. Manager
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    Energy and Utilities
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    Azure ML offers a solid end to end platform to support computer vision initiatives

    4.0
    Dec 22, 2022
    platform has proven to be an efficient way to create new computer vision models
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    Microsoft Azure delivers consistently.

    5.0
    Dec 7, 2022
    Wonderful company to work with. Excellent product and partnership support across various technology offerings. Some services need additional feature-parity in a secure cloud environment, but otherwise great.
  • Engineer Manager
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    Best ASR technology with Deep Customer Understanding

    5.0
    Nov 14, 2021
    We were developing an assistant which required ASR technology. After evaluating the major providers on the market, we determined that Microsoft Speech is the best option. It provides the most accurate ASR system, ready to use, deeply customizable, and scales super well. The Microsoft Speech team is great to work with, they understood our scenarios and worked hard to meet all our need.
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    Easy Integration of Cognitive Services Document Translation into Highly Secure Platform

    5.0
    Nov 9, 2021
    Our company was evaluating vendors for us to solve a growing pain point for our customers who need to understand context of data and documents in their non-native language. After talking with a few vendors, Microsoft easily won our business, and even allowed us to be part of their Alpha and Beta programs for this new product, the Document Translation API. Our feedback for Microsoft in these programs was implemented quickly in time for their General Release, this was despite our industry having slightly unique requirements. In turn, our customers are blown away by the speed, quality, and format of the translated documents returned.
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