Tag Archives: Azure Agent Units

Azure SRE Agent

Microsoft announce the general availability of the Azure SRE Agent. It’s interesting from a licensing perspective because it’s a pre-built Azure Agent and thus doesn’t consume the same Copilot Credits that Copilot Studio Agents do. Instead, it consumes a new measure – Azure Agent Units or AAUs. This, clearly, is a bit of a headache if you have Agents using different units and that’s where the Agent Pre-Purchase Plan comes in. This is a cost-effective way of purchasing Agent Commit Units which can be consumed by usage of both Copilot Credits and Azure Agent Units.

You can find more information on the Agent Pre-Purchase Plan on our blog here: https://bit.ly/4uILb7v, and the Azure SRE Agent announcement article is here: https://bit.ly/3NHs9h6.

Azure SRE Agent and AAUs

The Azure SRE Agent is designed to streamline incident response, improve service uptime, and cut operational costs, allowing Site Reliability Engineers to focus on higher-value tasks. Why’s it interesting from a licensing perspective? It’s the first Azure-hosted autonomous Agent that’s billed via a new measure – Azure Agent Units or AAUs. The Azure SRE Agent continuously monitors in the background incurring charges of 4 AAUs an hour and then, when issues are detected, billing is 0.25 of an AAU for every second the Agent is engaged on a task.

Find a good article with some example billing scenarios here: https://bit.ly/47utIGS.