Riffing on that a bit, I just don't get the sense OpenAI wants to be in the business of hosting mission critical APIs for Fortune 500 companies. To your point,

Riffing on that a bit, I just don't get the sense OpenAI wants to be in the business of hosting mission critical APIs for Fortune 500 companies. To your point, running AWS level services is an entirely different business that doesn't make sense for OpenAI's relatively small team. If you need rock solid stability and scale, OpenAI and Microsoft would probably rather have you just use "Azure OpenAI" services, which is still hosting Codex: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/openai/how-to/work-with-code https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/o... Reading between the lines, I think OpenAI is signaling that if you want a more mature and stable product, go with Azure. If you want the latest cutting edge, and don't mind a little instability, keep using OpenAI API's.