diff --git a/azure/README.md b/azure/README.md
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--- a/azure/README.md
+++ b/azure/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Getting Started with DeepSpeed on Azure
 
-Please see our [Azure tutorial](https://www.deepspeed.ai/tutorials/azure/) to get started with DeepSpeed on Azure!
+The recommended and simplest method to try DeepSpeed on Azure is through [AzureML](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/). For more details, please see our [Azure tutorial](https://www.deepspeed.ai/tutorials/azure/).
diff --git a/azure/attach.sh b/azure/attach.sh
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index c23127b0fb61f62188f41aa2677e97c8121b0131..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/azure/attach.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-name=${1-deepspeed}
-docker exec -i -w /home/deepspeed -t $name /bin/bash
diff --git a/azure/azure_config.json b/azure/azure_config.json
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index 9c61e4d3705c34442c7d53b2be24792b8cd61ca3..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/azure/azure_config.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "num_vms": 2,
-  "location": "southcentralus",
-  "azure_sku": "Standard_NV6_Promo",
-  "ssh_private_key": "id_rsa",
-  "docker_ssh_port": 2222
-}
diff --git a/azure/azure_ssh.sh b/azure/azure_ssh.sh
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index 3259a3c88341a4e35099cbbb34b105f0d737c6aa..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/azure/azure_ssh.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-config_file=azure_config.json
-if [ ! -f ${config_file} ]; then
-    echo "Cannot find $config_file"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-location=`cat ${config_file} | jq .location | sed 's/"//g'`
-rg=deepspeed_rg_$location
-
-while getopts 'c:' flag; do
-  case "${flag}" in
-    c) config_file="${OPTARG}" ;;
-    *) error "Unexpected option ${flag}" ;;
-  esac
-done
-shift $(expr $OPTIND - 1)
-echo "Using $config_file"
-
-nodeid=$1
-cmds=${@:2}
-echo $nodeid $cmds
-ip_addr=`az vm list-ip-addresses -g $rg | jq .[${nodeid}].virtualMachine.network.publicIpAddresses[0].ipAddress | sed 's/"//g'`
-
-ssh_private_key=`cat ${config_file} | jq .ssh_private_key | sed 's/"//g'`
-if [ $ssh_private_key == "null" ]; then echo 'missing ssh_private_key in config'; exit 1; fi
-
-ssh -i ${ssh_private_key} -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null deepspeed@${ip_addr} ${cmds}
diff --git a/azure/build_docker_image.sh b/azure/build_docker_image.sh
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index e8617f0844f5abe4696f5968c08bc8387d442699..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/azure/build_docker_image.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-docker build -t deepspeed:0.1 -f ../Dockerfile .
diff --git a/azure/create_vms.sh b/azure/create_vms.sh
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index 257a011f035c73f81c62ab8084871f6df5a010fb..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/azure/create_vms.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-azure_config=azure_config.json
-
-# Make sure jq is installed
-command -v jq
-if [ $? != 0 ]; then
-    echo "Missing dependency of jq, please 'apt-get install jq'"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ ! -f ${azure_config} ]; then
-    echo "Cannot find $azure_config"
-    exit 1
-fi
-cat $azure_config
-
-num_vms=`cat ${azure_config} | jq .num_vms`
-if [ $num_vms == "null" ]; then echo 'missing num_vms in config'; exit 1; fi
-location=`cat ${azure_config} | jq .location | sed 's/"//g'`
-if [ $location == "null" ]; then echo 'missing location in config'; exit 1; fi
-azure_sku=`cat ${azure_config} | jq .azure_sku | sed 's/"//g'`
-if [ $azure_sku == "null" ]; then echo 'missing azure_sku in config'; exit 1; fi
-ssh_private_key=`cat ${azure_config} | jq .ssh_private_key | sed 's/"//g'`
-if [ $ssh_private_key == "null" ]; then echo 'missing ssh_private_key in config'; exit 1; fi
-ssh_key=${ssh_private_key}.pub
-
-if [ ! -f ${ssh_private_key} ]; then
-    echo "Cannot find $ssh_private_key"
-    exit 1
-fi
-if [ ! -f ${ssh_key} ]; then
-    echo "Cannot find $ssh_key"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-resource_group=deepspeed_rg_$location
-az group create --name ${resource_group} --location $location
-
-base_vm_name=deepspeed
-vm_image="nvidia:ngc_azure_17_11:ngc_gpu_cloud_19_11_3:19.11.3"
-
-az vm image terms accept --urn ${vm_image}
-
-for i in `seq 0 $(( num_vms - 1))`; do
-    vm_name=${base_vm_name}_$i
-    echo "creating $vm_name"
-    az vm create \
-      --resource-group ${resource_group} \
-      --name ${vm_name} \
-      --image ${vm_image} \
-      --admin-username deepspeed \
-      --size ${azure_sku} \
-      --ssh-key-values ${ssh_key}
-done
diff --git a/azure/setup_docker.sh b/azure/setup_docker.sh
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index 7b8d5cfcdd51e88c562a82d344302d235f8bc865..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/azure/setup_docker.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-azure_config=azure_config.json
-if [ ! -f ${azure_config} ]; then
-    echo "Cannot find $azure_config"
-    exit 1
-fi
-location=`cat ${azure_config} | jq .location | sed 's/"//g'`
-rg=deepspeed_rg_$location
-
-parallel=true
-command -v pdsh
-if [ $? != 0 ]; then
-    echo "Installing pdsh will allow for the docker pull to be done in parallel across the cluster. See: 'apt-get install pdsh'"
-    parallel=false
-fi
-
-ssh_key=`cat ${azure_config} | jq .ssh_private_key | sed 's/"//g'`
-if [ $ssh_key == "null" ]; then echo 'missing ssh_private_key in config'; exit 1; fi
-num_vms=`cat ${azure_config} | jq .num_vms`
-if [ $num_vms == "null" ]; then echo 'missing num_vms in config'; exit 1; fi
-
-args="-i ${ssh_key} -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null"
-username=deepspeed
-
-update_script="
-docker pull deepspeed/deepspeed:latest;
-ln -s workdir/DeepSpeed/azure/attach.sh attach.sh;
-cd workdir/DeepSpeed;
-git pull;
-git submodule update --init --recursive;
-bash azure/start_container.sh;
-"
-
-if [ $parallel == true ]; then
-    echo "parallel docker pull"
-    hosts=""
-    for node_id in {0..1}; do
-        addr=`az vm list-ip-addresses  -g $rg | jq .[${node_id}].virtualMachine.network.publicIpAddresses[0].ipAddress | sed 's/"//g'`
-        hosts="${addr},${hosts}"
-    done
-     PDSH_RCMD_TYPE=ssh  PDSH_SSH_ARGS_APPEND=${args} pdsh -w $hosts -l ${username} $update_script
-else
-    echo "sequential docker pull"
-    for node_id in `seq 0 $((num_vms - 1))`; do
-        ip_addr=`az vm list-ip-addresses  -g $rg | jq .[${node_id}].virtualMachine.network.publicIpAddresses[0].ipAddress | sed 's/"//g'`
-        addr=${username}@${ip_addr}
-        ssh ${args} $addr $update_script
-    done
-fi
diff --git a/azure/setup_vms.sh b/azure/setup_vms.sh
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index 118bed2ce7279fc62086e913ca66f2fdba01b710..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/azure/setup_vms.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-azure_config=azure_config.json
-if [ ! -f ${azure_config} ]; then
-    echo "Cannot find $azure_config"
-    exit 1
-fi
-location=`cat ${azure_config} | jq .location | sed 's/"//g'`
-rg=deepspeed_rg_$location
-
-ssh_key=`cat ${azure_config} | jq .ssh_private_key | sed 's/"//g'`
-if [ $ssh_key == "null" ]; then echo 'missing ssh_private_key in config'; exit 1; fi
-docker_ssh_port=`cat ${azure_config} | jq .docker_ssh_port`
-if [ $docker_ssh_port == "null" ]; then echo 'missing docker_ssh_port in config'; exit 1; fi
-
-username=deepspeed
-args="-i ${ssh_key} -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null"
-
-num_vms=`az vm list  -g $rg | jq '. | length'`
-first_ip_addr=`az vm list-ip-addresses  -g $rg | jq .[0].virtualMachine.network.publicIpAddresses[0].ipAddress | sed 's/"//g'`
-num_slots=`ssh $args ${username}@${first_ip_addr} 'nvidia-smi -L | wc -l'`
-echo "number of slots per vm: $num_slots"
-
-hostfile=hostfile
-ssh_config=config
-echo -n "" > $hostfile
-echo -n "" > $ssh_config
-for node_id in `seq 0 $((num_vms - 1))`; do
-    private_ip_addr=`az vm list-ip-addresses  -g $rg | jq .[${node_id}].virtualMachine.network.privateIpAddresses[0] | sed 's/"//g'`
-    echo "worker-${node_id} slots=${num_slots}" >> hostfile
-    echo "Host worker-${node_id}
-    HostName ${private_ip_addr}
-    Port ${docker_ssh_port}
-    StrictHostKeyChecking no
-    " >> ${ssh_config}
-done
-
-update_script="
-sudo mkdir -p /job;
-sudo chmod -R 777 /job;
-mkdir -p workdir;
-git clone https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed.git workdir/DeepSpeed;
-"
-
-for node_id in `seq 0 $((num_vms - 1))`; do
-    ip_addr=`az vm list-ip-addresses  -g $rg | jq .[${node_id}].virtualMachine.network.publicIpAddresses[0].ipAddress | sed 's/"//g'`
-    addr=${username}@${ip_addr}
-    echo "copying ssh keys, ssh config, hostfile to worker-${node_id}"
-    ssh $args ${addr} $update_script
-    scp $args ${ssh_key}* ${addr}:.ssh/
-    scp $args ${ssh_config} ${addr}:.ssh/
-    scp $args ${hostfile} ${addr}:/job/
-done
-rm $hostfile $ssh_config
diff --git a/azure/shutdown_vms.sh b/azure/shutdown_vms.sh
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index 75317118be436ef487544f8edef2e26f4a4829d0..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/azure/shutdown_vms.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-azure_config=azure_config.json
-if [ ! -f ${azure_config} ]; then
-    echo "Cannot find $azure_config"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-delete=0
-while getopts 'd' flag; do
-  case "${flag}" in
-    d) delete=1 ;;
-    *)
-        echo "Unexpected option ${flag}"
-        exit 1
-        ;;
-  esac
-done
-
-num_vms=`cat ${azure_config} | jq .num_vms`
-if [ $num_vms == "null" ]; then echo 'missing num_vms in config'; exit 1; fi
-location=`cat ${azure_config} | jq .location | sed 's/"//g'`
-if [ $location == "null" ]; then echo 'missing location in config'; exit 1; fi
-
-base_vm_name=deepspeed
-resource_group=deepspeed_rg_$location
-
-for i in `seq 0 $(( num_vms - 1))`; do
-    vm_name=${base_vm_name}_$i
-    if [ $delete == 0 ]; then
-        echo "deallocating $vm_name"
-        az vm deallocate --resource-group $resource_group --name $vm_name --no-wait
-    else
-        echo "deleting $vm_name"
-        az vm delete -y --resource-group $resource_group --name $vm_name --no-wait
-    fi
-done
diff --git a/azure/start_container.sh b/azure/start_container.sh
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index 7e6aae5406b652700ec20bf3736aaeb70d89d0f0..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/azure/start_container.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-name=${1-deepspeed}
-image=deepspeed/deepspeed:latest
-echo "starting docker image named $name"
-docker run -d -t --name $name \
-        --network host \
-        -v ${HOME}/workdir:/home/deepspeed/workdir \
-        -v ${HOME}/.ssh:/home/deepspeed/.ssh \
-        -v /job/hostfile:/job/hostfile \
-        --gpus all $image bash -c 'sudo service ssh start && sleep infinity'
diff --git a/docs/_tutorials/azure.md b/docs/_tutorials/azure.md
index 1016aeafd007c2257a24e54e735e6ec923869106..a2c558444844251eb1a99eacf8fbe9ad044438f9 100644
--- a/docs/_tutorials/azure.md
+++ b/docs/_tutorials/azure.md
@@ -3,132 +3,18 @@ title: "Getting Started with DeepSpeed on Azure"
 tags: getting-started
 ---
 
-This tutorial will help you get started running DeepSpeed on [Azure virtual
-machines](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/).
-Looking forward, we will be integrating these techniques and additional enhancements
-into the [Azure ML](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/) platform to
-benefit all your large model training jobs.
+This tutorial will help you get started with DeepSpeed on Azure.
 
 If you don't already have an Azure account please see more details here: [https://azure.microsoft.com/](https://azure.microsoft.com/).
 
-To use DeepSpeed on [Azure ML](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/), please take a look at easy-to-use examples for Transformers and CIFAR training from [AzureML Examples GitHub](https://github.com/Azure/azureml-examples/tree/main/python-sdk/workflows/train/deepspeed).
+# DeepSpeed on Azure via AzureML
 
-To help with launching Azure instances we suggest using the [Azure
-CLI](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/?view=azure-cli-latest). We have created
-several helper scripts to get you quickly started using DeepSpeed with Azure.
- * Install Azure CLI on your local box: [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli).
- * Alternatively, you can use the Azure in-browser shell: [https://shell.azure.com/](https://shell.azure.com/).
+The recommended and simplest method to try DeepSpeed on Azure is through [AzureML](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/). Please take a look at easy-to-use examples for Megatron-DeepSpeed, Transformers and CIFAR training [here](https://github.com/Azure/azureml-examples/tree/main/python-sdk/workflows/train/deepspeed).
 
-## Create an SSH key
-Generate an SSH key that will be used across this tutorial to SSH into your VMs and
-between Docker containers. `ssh-keygen` is the recommended way of doing this. Our scripts
-assume your key is located inside the same directory as the Azure scripts.
+> Our [Megatron-DeepSpeed](https://github.com/microsoft/megatron-deepspeed) contains the most up to date [recipe](https://github.com/microsoft/Megatron-DeepSpeed/tree/main/examples/azureml) for end-to-end training on AzureML.
 
-## Azure Config JSON
-Our helper scripts depend on the following a configuration JSON for deployment
-and setup.  We have provided a simple example JSON in `azure_config.json` that
-sets up a basic environment with two VMs. This config uses the NV6_Promo
-instance type which has one NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPU per VM. You can read more
-details about the VM on the [Linux Virtual Machines
-Pricing](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/)
-page.
+# DeepSpeed on Azure VMs
 
-See the example below:
- ```json
-{
-  "num_vms": 2,
-  "location": "southcentralus",
-  "azure_sku": "Standard_NV6_Promo",
-  "ssh_private_key": "id_rsa",
-  "docker_ssh_port": 2222
-}
-```
+If you don't have access to AzureML or if want to build a custom environments using [Azure virtual machines](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/) or Azure VM Scale-Sets ([VMSS](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/overview)), we are working on easy-to-use cluster setup scripts that will be published in the next few weeks.
 
-## Dependencies
-The scripts in this tutorial require [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) to help with
-parsing JSON from the command line. Also it is recommended to install
-[pdsh](https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdsh) to help launch ssh connections in parallel.
-
-## Create Azure VMs
-We first need to allocate the VMs. We provide a script
-```bash
-./create_vms.sh
-```
-to create VMs with the Azure SKU in the region specified in `azure_config.json`. Feel
-free to customize your JSON to your desired region/SKU. This step will take a few minutes
-to complete while it sets up all of your VMs on Azure.
-
-## Setup VM environment to use DeepSpeed
-Next, we need to configure the VM environment for DeepSpeed. We provide a script
-```bash
-./setup_vms.sh
-```
-to generate a [hostfile](/getting-started/#resource-configuration-multi-node) and SSH
-configuration on all of the VMs. This configuration will be used by the DeepSpeed
-Docker containers in the next step.
-
-## Start the DeepSpeed docker container
-We now setup the DeepSpeed Docker containers on the VMs. We provide a script
-```bash
-./setup_docker.sh
-```
-to pull the DeepSpeed image onto all VMs and start a container instance in the
-background. This will take several minutes since it needs to pull the entire Docker
-image.
-
-## Access VMs
-The tool `azure_ssh.sh` will let you SSH into any of the VMs with this
-syntax:
-```bash
-./azure_ssh.sh <node-id> [command]
-```
-where the `node-id` is a number between `0` and `num_vms-1`.  This script will find the
-public IP address of your VM and use the SSH key provided in the Azure configuration
-JSON.
-
-## Access DeepSpeed container
-Everything should be up and running at this point. Let's access the running DeepSpeed
-container on the first VM and make sure we can talk to the other containers in our deployment.
-
- * SSH into the first VM via: `./azure_ssh.sh 0`
- * Change directories into the azure folder of this repo via: `cd ~/workdir/DeepSpeed/azure`
- * Attach the running docker container via: `./attach.sh`
- * You should now be able to `ssh` into any other docker container, the containers can be
-   accessed via their SSH alias of `worker-N`, where `N` is the VM number between `0`
-   and `num_vms-1`. In this example we should be able to successfully run `ssh worker-1
-   hostname` which will return the hostname of worker-1.
-
-## Parallel SSH across containers
- DeepSpeed comes installed with a helper script `ds_ssh` which is a wrapper around
- the [pdsh](https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdsh) command that lets you issue commands
- to groups of hosts (via SSH) in parallel. This wrapper simply connects with the
- hostfile that defines all the containers in your deployment. For example if you run
- `ds_ssh hostname` you should see a list of all the hostnames in your deployment.
-
-## Run CIFAR-10 example model
-We will now run the DeepSpeed CIFAR-10 model example to test the VM setup. From inside
-the first DeepSpeed container:
-
-  1) Install the python dependencies necessary to run the CIFAR-10 example model. You can
-  do this across your cluster via:
-  ```bash
-  ds_ssh pip install -r ~/workdir/DeepSpeed/DeepSpeedExamples/cifar/requirements.txt
-  ```
-
-  2) Now change directories to the CIFAR example:
-  ```bash
-  cd ~/workdir/DeepSpeed/DeepSpeedExamples/cifar
-  ```
-
-  3) Finally, launch training across all VMs:
-  ```bash
-  deepspeed cifar10_deepspeed.py --deepspeed --deepspeed_config ds_config.json
-  ```
-
-## Megatron-LM GPT2
-DeepSpeed includes an example model using Megatron-LM's GPT2. Please refer to the full
-[Megatron tutorial](/tutorials/megatron/) for more details.
- * In order to fully train GPT2 with DeepSpeed and ZeRO we recommend using 8 instances of
-   Azure's Standard_ND40rs_v2 SKU for a total of 64 NVIDIA V100 GPUs. With this setup and
-   a batch size of 1536 you should be able to complete 100k training steps (153.6 million
-   samples) in less than 2 weeks of training.
+If you already have a cluster setup, you can use the [azure recipes](https://github.com/microsoft/Megatron-DeepSpeed/tree/main/examples/azure) that can easily be modified to train various model configurations.