Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)

Summary

OpenAI describes Habitat, its online storage platform, which must respond in milliseconds to over 1 billion users across 40 geographic regions and now serves over 500 petabytes of data. This post, Part II of a series, explains how the team scaled the underlying storage component, Azure Cosmos DB, through a co-managed multi-tenant container approach developed with the Azure team. The excerpt cuts off before the details of that approach.

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