where is the data stored in assistant's file search feature

Question

In the context of Azure's vector store for the file search tool in assistants, could you clarify where the data is stored during indexing and query processing?

Answer 1

Hi there Marj De

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The uploaded files are stored in Azure Blob Storage. Their content is embedded into vectors and indexed in Azure AI Search. During queries, embeddings are matched against the vector index to fetch relevant documents for response generation. Metadata and configurations are managed within Azure OpenAI. hope this helps

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Answer 2

Hi Marj De

All this data from assistants stored in a secure, Microsoft-managed storage account, isolated for your Azure OpenAI resource​. In other words, Azure manages the storage for conversation history and uploaded content, and keeps it logically separated per customer/resource.

So, it won't be accessible to you, but you can delete those data using Rest Api or SDK by deleting assistant's threads.

DELETE https://<your-resource-name>.openai.azure.com/openai/threads/{thread_id}?api-version=2024-08-01-preview . 

Reference on Data storage in OpenAI

Reference on Deletion of data from assistants

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