Updated: September 25, 2024 (September 20, 2024)

Two Copilots for Azure: Which to Use?

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Copilot in Azure, free for Azure customers during preview, is a natural language-based AI assistant that helps with Azure administration tasks and cost management.
GitHub Copilot for Azure is a free extension available to GitHub Copilot customers that provides natural language-based AI assistance to developers within IDEs.
Both Copilots are in preview, and they could provide significant productivity boosts to Azure administrators and developers.
The feature set of each Copilot may change when they become generally available, and pricing (if they do not remain free) has not been announced.

Two similar-sounding Copilots help customers work with Azure: Copilot in Azure and GitHub Copilot for Azure. Copilot in Azure is geared toward administrators using the Azure portal, whereas GitHub Copilot for Azure is an extension that assists developers working in an integrated development environment (IDE) by providing information and executing tasks necessary to build Azure-based applications.

(Copilot in Fabric is a separate Azure-related Copilot for data scientists and engineers working with, for example, data warehouses and Power BI.)

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