Hitting the Wall at 50K: Azure OpenAI Quotas vs. Reality

50k < 1m. Right?

When deploying new resources in Azure OpenAI the consumption quota available is 20x lower than the documentation suggests should be the case.

For existing resources, there seem to be quotas that largely align with the documentation. This applies across longstanding Azure subscriptions and new ones created just to fund AI resources, and across a number of tenants, and seems to be duplicated in all Azure regions. And it's not just GPT-4.1.

It always feels a little odd when I can't find a way to let Microsoft take my money as quickly as I'd like.

Is Azure just being hit so hard in AI consumption that the documented limits can't be delivered?

I wonder if the reason OpenAI is suddenly doing deals with Oracle is because Microsoft wants a little capacity back?

Or am I just missing something I should already know?

First posted on Linkedin on 07/04/2025 -> click here to view post