Generally Available: Region-agnostic reservations for Global PTU in Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft Foundry adds region-agnostic reservations for Global Provisioned Throughput Units (PTUs) at general availability, letting customers commit to PTU capacity once and consume it from any supported region. Previously, a reserved PTU commitment was tied to a single region, which created friction for customers that operated multi-region applications or wanted to shift workloads as traffic patterns changed. With region-agnostic reservations, finance teams can sign one reservation contract and engineering teams can deploy models in whichever Azure region best fits a given workload, with the reservation discount applied automatically. Reservations cover supported Foundry Models including Azure Direct first-party models such as GPT-5 and GPT-4.1. Existing region-bound reservations continue to honor their original terms.

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