Event details
Security Compute Units (SCUs) are the required resource units that power Microsoft Security Copilot, ensuring dependable and consistent performance across both standalone and embedded product experiences within Microsoft Security.
In this session, we’ll demystify SCUs by unpacking:
- What SCUs are and how they function
- The billing models that govern their usage
- Optimization strategies to maximize value
- Best practices for SCU planning and deployment
You’ll also have the opportunity to engage directly with Security Copilot experts to ask your SCU-related questions and gain practical insights.
What is an AMA?
An 'Ask Microsoft Anything' (AMA) session is an opportunity for you to engage directly with Microsoft employees! This AMA will consist of a short presentation followed by taking questions on-camera from the comment section down below! Ask your questions/give your feedback and we will have our awesome Microsoft Subject Matter Experts engaging and responding directly in the video feed. We know this timeslot might not work for everyone, so feel free to ask your questions at any time leading up to the event and the experts will do their best to answer during the live hour. This page will stay up so come back and use it as a resource anytime. We hope you enjoy!
51 Comments
- ZEKEJCopper Contributor
For better resource management, can users see or estimate in advance how many Security Compute Units (SCUs) a given prompt or operation will consume before executing it?
- Dean_GrossSilver Contributor
are there any plans to add questions about using agents to the cost estimating tool?
- SquarePigCopper Contributor
Is there any way to see or get an estimated SCU cost of any particular action before taking that action?
- debacmanikandan-bvCopper Contributor
Is it possible to have 'just' Overage SCU (with no provisioned SCU) for a platform? or do I need to have at least one Provisioned SCU (like a baseline) to be able to use Overage SCU?
- Dean_GrossSilver Contributor
My client can use ChatGPT to create kql queries for free, why do they have to pay for the same functionality in Security Copilot?
- debacmanikandan-bvCopper Contributor
A key difference I could think of - ChatGPT doesn't have a native integration with Sentinel/Defender to run and test the queries built. Even if someone builds/has a custom integration to do so with ChatGPT, the data would leave your tenant (to OpenAI) and opens up a whole new can of worms from security perspective.
In my opinion - any AI platform can generate KQL queries, analyze incidents, anomalies, etc. But if you care about your data, you'll need to keep it in your tenant and that's where an integrated ecosystem comes into play.- SunderSinghCopper Contributor
All things considered, ChatGPT or other AI solutions often creates more accurate queries when it comes to complicated tasks. Security Copilot is good for pretty basic queries. Not all the time you need to share the data externally, just the hypothesis or idea, and 3rd party AI is always more accurate than Copilot in my experience from last few months.
- Dean_GrossSilver Contributor
how can we predict the impact of 3rd party plugins on the SCUs
- Dean_GrossSilver Contributor
Can we set a financial budget for SCUs like we can for other resources in Azure?
- Dean_GrossSilver Contributor
can the SCUs used by security copilot be used for other products, like Purview or Fabric?
- Trevor_Rusher
Community Manager
The event is starting soon. So excited to share this with you all. Remember to ask any questions you have in this comment section down below!
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