I want to enable Zero Data Retention in all of my Azure AI deployments

Hi Martin Moreno,

I understand you are looking for Zero Data Retention in Azure AI.

To answer your core question directly: This is not a setting that enables automatically by "waiting." It is a gated capability that requires an active application and approval process from Microsoft. You cannot enable it yourself in the portal without first being approved.

To help you out, zero data retention is only available for customers with an enterprise agreement (EA) or Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) and not pay-as-you-go.

You can share the justification on zero-day retention here on Abuse monitoring form.

Reference - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/openai/concepts/abuse-monitoring

You can deploy a dedicated Azure OpenAI Resource, not public/shared preview endpoints and access it via region-specific endpoints ( https://{your-resource-name}.openai.azure.com/).

Abuse monitoring and content filtering is on by default and may retain data temporarily (up to 30 days) so when zero retention is approved, this is disabled or bypassed for that resource.

Keep in mind that in zero data retention mode:

• prompts and completions are not stored even temporarily
• no human review is conducted
• you are responsible for ensuring content safety and compliance on your own systems
• you must request this mode per resource as it's not enabled by default

Reference - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/responsible-ai/openai/data-privacy?tabs=azure-portal