Why Does Using the Assistant API with Azure OpenAI Return a 404 Error?

I'm trying to create an assistant using Azure OpenAI with a GPT-4 model deployment and I keep getting a "Resource not found" error. My setup is as follows:

I'm using the model gpt-4-1106-preview deployed in US East2 with an API version of 2022-12-01-preview.

Here's how I instantiate the client:

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client = AzureOpenAI(
    api_key=api_key,
    api_version=api_version,
    azure_endpoint=azure_endpoint,
    azure_deployment=deployment_name
)

And then I try to create an assistant:

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assistant = client.beta.assistants.create(
    name="Math Tutor",
    instructions="You are a personal math tutor. Write and run code to answer math questions.",
    tools=[{"type": "code_interpreter"}],
    model='gpt-4-1106-preview' 
)

This results in the following error:

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NotFoundError                             Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[59], line 1
----> 1 assistant = client.beta.assistants.create(
      2     name="Math Tutor",
      3     instructions="You are a personal math tutor. Write and run code to answer math questions.",
      4     tools=[{"type": "code_interpreter"}],
      5     model='gpt-4-1106-preview' # Check the docs for the latest models
      6 )
...
NotFoundError: Error code: 404 - {'error': {'code': '404', 'message': 'Resource not found'}}

Based on documentation and community feedback, it appears that the Assistant API (with features such as creating assistants and using tools like a code interpreter) is exclusive to OpenAI's endpoints and is not supported on Azure OpenAI. Is there a workaround or alternative approach to achieve similar functionality using Azure's supported features?