Azure AI Search documentation

Learn how to use Azure AI Search for information retrieval at scale, with support for text, vector, and multimodal content in traditional and generative search scenarios.

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Overview

• What's Azure AI Search?
• Features
• FAQ

How-To Guide

• Create a search service
• Configure a search service

Agentic retrieval (RAG)

Concept

• Agentic retrieval

Quickstart

• Use agentic retrieval

How-To Guide

• Create a knowledge base
• Retrieve from a knowledge base

Classic search

Concept

• Full-text search
• Vector search
• Hybrid search
• Multimodal search

Quickstart

• Use full-text search
• Use vector search

How-To Guide

• Create a search index
• Create a vector index
• Query a vector index

Code samples

sample

• .NET samples
• Java samples
• JavaScript samples
• Python samples
• REST samples
• Vector samples

References

Reference

• Azure SDK for .NET
• Azure SDK for Java
• Azure SDK for JavaScript
• Azure SDK for Python
• Azure REST API