Preview Terms Of Use

Supplemental Terms of Use for Microsoft Azure Previews

• Last Updated: June 2026

General Terms

Preview Terms

Azure may include preview, beta, or other pre-release features, services, software, or regions offered by Microsoft for optional evaluation ("Previews"). Previews are licensed to you as part of your agreement governing use of Azure, and subject to terms applicable to "Previews". Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in your agreement. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE THE PREVIEW(S).

Service Specific Preview Terms

Certain named Previews are subject to additional terms set forth below. These Previews are made available to you pursuant to these additional terms, which supplement your agreement governing use of Azure. For clarity, if a Preview is not listed in the Service Specific Preview Terms section below, these General Terms and the standard terms applicable to “Previews” in your agreement apply.

Early Access Previews

Microsoft may offer access to optional, early-stage preview capabilities of Azure services or features, including those designated as frontier, early access, private preview, research, or experimental (collectively, “Early Access Previews”). Unless otherwise noted in product documentation, the following additional terms apply to all Early Access Previews.

Use Rights. You may use Early Access Previews for the sole purposes of testing and evaluating the new capabilities internally and providing feedback to Microsoft. You may not provide, share or publish the Early Access Previews to any third party.

• No Production Use. You may not use Early Access Previews in production or in a “live” operating environment. Early Access Previews are not Previews that allow Personal Data processing. The Customer Copyright Commitment does not apply to Early Access Previews.

• **Confidentiality. **Your use of Early Access Previews is confidential and subject to the terms of your non-disclosure agreement with Microsoft. If there is no NDA in effect, then the confidentiality terms in your services agreement apply.

Microsoft Generative AI Services Previews

Previews of generative AI features, including Copilots, within Azure services are subject to the Microsoft Generative AI Services section of the Universal License Terms for Online Services in the Product Terms and are not intended to be used in production or in a live operating environment. Unless otherwise noted in the Service Specific Terms section below or in product documentation, the following additional terms apply to previews of generative AI features, including Copilots, within Azure services:

• **Data access and use. **As part of providing the Microsoft Generative AI Services Previews, Microsoft may process and store Customer Data submitted to the service, as well as Output Content, for purposes of monitoring for and preventing abusive or harmful uses or outputs of the service. Authorized Microsoft employees may review data that has triggered our automated systems to investigate and verify potential abuse unless product documentation or product specific terms of use for a given Microsoft Generative AI Services Preview explicitly states that such review is not performed.

• Bing Search terms. For any component of Microsoft Generative AI Services Previews that is powered by Bing, as disclosed in the product documentation, Customer’s use of Bing is governed by the Microsoft Services Agreement and the Microsoft Privacy Statement, except that noncommercial use limitations do not apply to Products available for a fee through Microsoft volume licensing. The Data Protection Addendum does not apply to Customer’s use of Bing search within Microsoft Generative AI Services Previews.