Integration of AI Services with Event-Driven Architectures using Azure Event Hubs

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To integrate AI services with an event-driven architecture using Azure Event Hubs, you would need to set up an event hub to capture and store events, and then connect it to an AI service to process those events.

In this Pulumi program, we'll take the following steps to create such an architecture:

1. Create a new Azure Resource Group to host our resources.
2. Provision an Event Hubs Namespace, which is a container for one or multiple event hubs.
3. Create an Event Hub within the namespace.
4. Set up a CaptureDescription to automatically capture the event data and store it in an Azure Blob Storage. This mechanism enables processing and analysis by AI services.

Below is a Pulumi program written in Python that uses `azure-native` SDK to create an Event Hub with a capture description that dumps the data into Azure Blob Storage.

Before running this code, make sure you have the Azure provider configured in your Pulumi setup by running `pulumi config set azure-native:location <desired-location>` to specify your preferred Azure location.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_azure_native as azure_native

# Create a new resource group to contain the event hub and associated resources
resource_group = azure_native.resources.ResourceGroup("resource_group")

# Create an Azure Event Hubs Namespace where the Event Hubs can live
event_hub_namespace = azure_native.eventhub.Namespace("eventHubNamespace",
                                                      resource_group_name=resource_group.name,
                                                      sku=azure_native.eventhub.SkuArgs(
                                                          name="Standard"
                                                      ),
                                                      location=resource_group.location)

# Create the Event Hub inside the namespace
event_hub = azure_native.eventhub.EventHub("eventHub",
                                           resource_group_name=resource_group.name,
                                           namespace_name=event_hub_namespace.name,
                                           partition_count=2,
                                           message_retention_in_days=1)

# This is a placeholder, you'll replace this with your actual Blob Storage account and container details
storage_account_name = "yourstorageaccount"
storage_container_name = "yourcontainer"

# Define the CaptureDescription to store Event Hub data in a Blob Storage
capture_description = azure_native.eventhub.CaptureDescriptionArgs(
    enabled=True,
    encoding="Avro",
    interval_in_seconds=120,
    size_limit_in_bytes=10485760, # 10MB
    destination=azure_native.eventhub.DestinationArgs(
        name="EventHubArchive.AzureBlockBlob", # Use Azure Blob Storage for event data capture
        archive_name_format="{Namespace}/{EventHub}/{PartitionId}/{Year}/{Month}/{Day}/{Hour}/{Minute}/{Second}",
        blob_container=storage_container_name,
        storage_account_resource_id=f"/subscriptions/{pulumi.config.require('azure-native:subscriptionId')}/resourceGroups/{resource_group.name}/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/{storage_account_name}"
    )
)

# Apply the capture description to the event hub
# This will enable the data to be automatically captured and saved in the Blob Storage
azure_native.eventhub.EventHub("captureEnabledEventHub",
                               resource_group_name=resource_group.name,
                               namespace_name=event_hub_namespace.name,
                               partition_count=2,
                               message_retention_in_days=1,
                               capture_description=capture_description)

pulumi.export('resource_group_name', resource_group.name)
pulumi.export('event_hub_namespace_name', event_hub_namespace.name)
pulumi.export('event_hub_name', event_hub.name)
```

In this program, `pulumi.export` is used to output the names of the created resources. After deploying this infrastructure using Pulumi, data sent to the Event Hub will be captured and stored in Azure Blob Storage in Avro format. From there, an AI service or any data processing service can read and process the captured data as per your requirements.

Please ensure that the storage account and blob container exist beforehand or are created as part of the Pulumi program. Also, adjust the capture settings, like interval and size limit, based on your specific needs.