Public Preview: Easy service upgrade and change service tier in Azure AI Search

Azure AI Search has two new self-serve options that make it easy to change or upgrade your service, directly from Azure portal or the management API.  

• Changing your service tier is now as easy as adding partitions or replicas; no rebuild required. 

• Self-service option to perform upgrades to new service capabilities, like increased capacity limits or improved features, without having to recreate the service or reindex data. 

• Change service tiers between Basic, S1, S2, and S3 tiers.​ Free, S3 HD, L1, and L2 services are not eligible to change their tier.​ 

• Service upgrade increases total storage in your service to the higher capacity limits available for new services.  

• At time of release, service upgrade will be available in select regions, with more regions added in the coming months. 

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