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articles/ai-services/openai/how-to/deployment-types.md

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 | **Offering** | **Global-Batch** | **Global-Standard** | **Standard** | **Provisioned**  |
 |---|:---|:---|:---|:---|
-| **Best suited for**      | Offline scoring <br><br> Workloads that are not latency sensitive and can be completed in hours.| Applications that don’t require data residency. Recommended starting place for customers. | For customers with data residency requirements. Optimized for low to medium volume. | Real-time scoring for large consistent volume. Includes the highest commitments and limits.|
+| **Best suited for**      | Offline scoring <br><br> Workloads that are not latency sensitive and can be completed in hours.<br><br> For use cases that do not have data processing residency requirements.| Recommended starting place for customers. <br><br>Global-Standard will have the higher default quota and larger number of models available than Standard. <br><br> For production applications that do not have data processing residency requirements. | For customers with data processing residency requirements. | For customers with data residency requirements. Optimized for low to medium volume. | Real-time scoring for large consistent volume. Includes the highest commitments and limits.|
 | **How it works**         | Offline processing via files |Traffic may be routed anywhere in the world | | |
 | **Getting started**      | [Global-Batch](./batch.md) | [Model deployment](./create-resource.md) | [Model deployment](./create-resource.md) | [Provisioned onboarding](./provisioned-throughput-onboarding.md) |
 | **Cost**                 | [Least expensive option](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/cognitive-services/openai-service/) <br> 50% less cost compared to Global Standard prices. Access to all new models with larger quota allocations.  | [Global deployment pricing](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/cognitive-services/openai-service/) |  [Regional pricing](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/cognitive-services/openai-service/) | May experience cost savings for consistent usage |

articles/ai-services/openai/whats-new.md

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-ms.date: 08/02/2024
+ms.date: 08/05/2024
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 # What's new in Azure OpenAI Service
 
 This article provides a summary of the latest releases and major documentation updates for Azure OpenAI.
 
+## August 2024
+
+### Global batch deployments are now available
+
+The Azure OpenAI Batch API is designed to handle large-scale and high-volume processing tasks efficiently. Process asynchronous groups of requests with separate quota, a 24-hour turnaround time, at [50% less cost than global standard](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/cognitive-services/openai-service/). With batch processing, rather than send one request at a time you send a large number of requests in a single file. Global batch requests have a separate enqueued token quota avoiding any disruption of your online workloads.  
+
+Key use cases include:
+
+* **Large-Scale Data Processing:** Quickly analyze extensive datasets in parallel.
+
+* **Content Generation:** Create large volumes of text, such as product descriptions or articles.
+
+* **Document Review and Summarization:** Automate the review and summarization of lengthy documents.
+
+* **Customer Support Automation:** Handle numerous queries simultaneously for faster responses.
+
+* **Data Extraction and Analysis:** Extract and analyze information from vast amounts of unstructured data.
+
+* **Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tasks:** Perform tasks like sentiment analysis or translation on large datasets.
+
+* **Marketing and Personalization:** Generate personalized content and recommendations at scale.
+
+For more information on [getting started with global batch deployments](./how-to/batch.md).
+
 ## July 2024
 
 ### GPT-4o mini is now available for fine-tuning