Conclusion

Azure AI Search is a search service Microsoft offers as part of its suite of cloud services through the Microsoft Azure platform. It offers many types of search capabilities, grouped into either textual or generative AI search, and has many features that make it suitable for both small and large-scale use.

In this lesson, you learned about Azure AI Search and its capabilities. You created an Azure account and explored the Azure portal. You also created some resources and tried out a basic RAG based on Azure AI Search. You saw the importance of RAG and how they compare when implemented with Azure AI Search as compared with LangChain.

In summary, you were able to:

• Understand the core features and capabilities of Azure AI Search.
• Compare Azure AI Search with custom LangChain Retrieval-Augmented Generation Solutions.
• Set up an Azure AI Search service and index basic data.

In the next lesson, you’ll expand on this by learning how to perform vector search in your RAG app.

And if you haven’t already, do make sure you clean up any indexes you created and shut down any services you spun up for this lesson. Make this a habit at the end of each lesson, as you don’t want to see those surprise billing charges! :]