What is Azure Operator Service Manager?
Azure Operator Service Manager is a cloud orchestration service designed to simplify management of complex edge network services hosted on the Azure Operator Nexus platform. It provides persona-based capabilities to onboard, compose, deploy and update multi-vendor applications across one-to-many Azure sites and regions. Azure Operator Service Manager caters to the needs of large scale operator environments, helping to accelerate the migration of workloads to Azure cloud, while utilizing trusted Azure safe practices, to ensure service resiliency and reliability.
Technical overview
Managing complex network services efficiently and reliably can be a challenge. Azure Operator Service Manager’s unique approach introduces curated experiences for publishers, designers, and operators. The following diagram illustrates the Azure Operator Service Manager (AOSM) deployment workflow.
Product features
Unified service orchestration
Consolidate service management tasks into a single set of end-to-end Azure operations to seamlessly manage infrastructure, software and configuration for complex multi-vendor multi-region services. Model network services using Azure Resource Manager (ARM), just like other Azure resources and drive run-time operations via any Azure interfaces, such as portal, CLI, API, or SDK.
Hybrid operations at scale
Azure Operator Service Manager is built to scale using the same underlying databases, analytics and cloud-native foundational engineering as Azure itself. Core and edge workloads can be managed together, as complete network deployments ranging in scale from private 5G to national networks. Alternatively use Azure subscription or role-based separation of different parts of your network to segregate management by operational team or service type.
Operator grade security
Azure Operator Service Manager works seamlessly with Azure security features including Private Link, embedded registries, artifact stores and secret management options to ensure that the operator has confidence that what is deployed matches what was on-boarded by each publisher.
Automation and AI
Accelerate your journey towards autonomous operations using Azure Operator Service Manager in combination with Azure DevOps for Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD) automation. Go further with data-driven insights and actions derived from any Azure analytics and AI services, including Azure Operator Insights, Fabric, Azure Data Explorer (ADX), LogicApps, and Copilot.
Conclusion
By unifying service management, facilitating deployments at fleet-wide scale and ensuring service consistency, operators can achieve accelerated service velocity, improved service reliability, and optimize service cost. Harness the power of Microsoft Azure through Azure Operator Service Manager to drive network services forward.
Service Level Agreement
SLA (Service Level Agreement) information can be found on the Service Level Agreements SLA for Online Services).
Related Azure services
Azure Operator Service Manager is often deployed in combination with the following Azure services.
Get access to Azure Operator Service Manager (AOSM) for your Azure subscription
Contact your Microsoft account team to register your Azure subscription for access to Azure Operator Service Manager (AOSM) or express your interest through the partner registration form.