Microsoft Azure - Artifical Intelligence Data Science Stack

Microsoft now has an amazing offering for building and hosting your AI/Data Science solution.

Infrastructure

Azure Batch https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/batch/

Docker Images for AI/Data Science  https://github.com/Azure/batch-shipyard/tree/master/recipes

Data Platforms

SQL Database/SQL Server https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/what-s-new-in-sql-server-2017

Azure Datalake https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/data-lake/

Azure Analysis Services https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/analysis-services/

Azure Cosmos DB https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cosmos-db/

Hardware

FPGA https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/resources/videos/build-2017-inside-the-microsoft-fpga-based-configurable-cloud/

GPU http://gpu.azure.com/

Processing

Process data in Azure DataScience VM https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/machine-learning-data-science-virtual-machine-overview#whats-included-in-the-data-science-vm

Azure Batch AI Training https://batchaitraining.azure.com/

Azure ML Experimentation & Management https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/

Azure Jupyter Notebooks http://notebooks.azure.com

Frameworks

All these come as standard on the Azure Data Science VM which is available on Windows, Ubuntu or Centos see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/machine-learning-data-science-virtual-machine-overview or can be run under containers using the Azure Batch Shipyard Images https://github.com/Azure/batch-shipyard/tree/master/recipes

CNTK https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/cntk-on-azure
Tensorflow
R Server
Torch
Theano
Scikit
Keras
Nvidia Digits
CUDA, CUDNN
Spark
Hadoop
 

Services

Machine Learning and Toolkits https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/

Cognitive Services https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/cognitive-services/

Bot Framework https://dev.botframework.com

REST APIs intelligence in the cloud http://aka.ms/cognitive

Resources

Microsoft AI News

Azure DataScience VM

Container images https://github.com/Azure/batch-shipyard/tree/master/recipes

Announcing AI for Earth: Microsoft’s new program to put AI to work for the future of our planet

Microsoft Build 2017: Microsoft AI – Amplify human ingenuity

Microsoft AI products and services