Foundry Agent Service

hosted-runtime

Properties

vendor: Microsoft (Azure)
url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/agents/overview
whatItIs: Managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling AI agents with prompt agents or hosted agents; works with any framework (Agent Framework, LangGraph, OpenAI SDK, Anthropic SDK).
hosting: managed-only
pricingModel: per-call + container compute
modelProviders: multi-model (Foundry catalogue)
stateModel: sessions + persisted containers
toolModel: function-calling + MCP + tools catalogue
includesBrowser: true
includesMemory: true
longRunning: managed workflows
hitlSupport: true
observability: Application Insights + tracing
maturity: ga
launched: 2026-Q2
notes: Dual path: low-code prompt agents and code-based hosted agents are both GA (hosted agents reached GA around 2026-07-09). The A2A agent-to-agent protocol endpoint remains in preview. Enterprise identity (Entra), RBAC, content filters, VNet isolation; can publish to Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

hosted-runtime

vendor: Microsoft (Azure)
url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/agents/overview
whatItIs: Managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling AI agents with prompt agents or hosted agents; works with any framework (Agent Framework, LangGraph, OpenAI SDK, Anthropic SDK).
hosting: managed-only
pricingModel: per-call + container compute
modelProviders: multi-model (Foundry catalogue)
stateModel: sessions + persisted containers
toolModel: function-calling + MCP + tools catalogue
includesBrowser: true
includesMemory: true
longRunning: managed workflows
hitlSupport: true
observability: Application Insights + tracing
maturity: ga
launched: 2026-Q2
notes: Dual path: low-code prompt agents and code-based hosted agents are both GA (hosted agents reached GA around 2026-07-09). The A2A agent-to-agent protocol endpoint remains in preview. Enterprise identity (Entra), RBAC, content filters, VNet isolation; can publish to Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot.