Automated Architectures¶
The AI Factory currently provides two automated template architectures — ESML and GenAI-1 — that are deployed as AI Factory projects inside your AI landing zones.
Architecture Overview¶
Each team in the AI Factory gets their own floor: an isolated project with either Architecture 1 (ESML) or Architecture 2 (GenAI-1), or both. Services can be turned ON/OFF at any time via feature flags without disrupting other projects.
Architecture 1 — ESML (Enterprise Scale Machine Learning)¶
Designed for discriminative AI workloads: model training, batch inference, and online scoring.
Baseline services: - Azure Machine Learning (private workspace) - Azure Container Registry (Premium, private) - Azure Storage (Data Lake) - Key Vault, Application Insights - Private networking (VNet, subnets, private endpoints)
Optional services: - AKS (private cluster, Arc-enabled) for online scoring - Azure Data Factory for pipeline orchestration - Azure Databricks for large-scale feature engineering - Microsoft Fabric / OneLake integration
Architecture 2 — GenAI-1 (Enterprise Scale GenAI)¶
Designed for generative AI workloads: RAG, agentic pipelines, LLM-based applications.
Baseline services: - AI Foundry Hub + default project (private) - AI Search (private, with shared private link support) - Azure OpenAI (via AI Foundry) - 2× Storage accounts, Key Vault, Application Insights, Monitoring dashboards - Private networking
Optional services (feature flags): - Cosmos DB (required for AI Foundry Capacity Host) - Container Apps, Web App, Function App, AKS - Logic Apps, Event Hubs, APIM AI Gateway - Bing Grounding, Azure Vision, Speech, Content Safety, Document Intelligence - PostgreSQL, Redis Cache, Azure SQL
Enterprise Landing Zone Context¶
The AI Factory projects live inside 3 AI landing zones (Dev, Stage, Prod), which can be connected to an existing enterprise network using:
| Topology | Description |
|---|---|
| Hub/Spoke | Traditional hub VNet with peered spoke VNets per environment |
| VWAN Hub | Azure Virtual WAN for global, managed connectivity |
ESML With Fabric Flavour¶
