The service is temporarily unable to process your request. Please try again later.

To address the 503 status error in the Azure OpenAI API, you can consider the following solutions:

General Approaches

• Check the Azure Service Status to ensure there are no ongoing maintenance or outages in your region.

• Try the request again later, as the issue might be transient.

Scaling and Resource Management

• Scale out to handle spikes by failing over to Azure OpenAI instances with available capacity.

• Use global and data zone deployments to leverage model capacity from multiple data centers, reducing the likelihood of service throttling.

Request Handling

• Implement appropriate back-off and retry logic to handle requests that exceed the Token-Per-Minute (TPM) or Requests-Per-Minute (RPM) limits.

• Prioritize client requests and consider queuing low-priority requests for periods of low model utilization.

Network and Configuration

• Verify that network restrictions or proxy settings are not contributing to the issue.

• Ensure that your API configuration, including timeout settings and retry limits, is correctly set up.