Fully managed Microsoft Foundry offering in which prompt, voice and hosted agents are created, deployed, run and scaled. Models, tools, guardrails, versioning, tracing and network isolation all come built in.
Also called Azure AI Agent Service.
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Terms in this definition
- Fully managed
An Android Enterprise setup for company-owned devices that one person uses only for work, with Intune in control of the entire device.
- Microsoft Foundry
Formerly called Azure AI Foundry, the Azure platform where AI models and agents are built, evaluated and run within one resource, with evaluations, guardrails and AI red teaming.
- Versioning
When enabled on Blob Storage, earlier versions of each blob are retained. Point-in-time restore depends on it, though it never purges data itself.
- ACID
Four promises a database transaction makes: atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability. Azure Cosmos DB honours them, with snapshot isolation, only inside one logical partition, using stored procedures, triggers or transactional batch.
- ALL
A DAX function that ignores any filters and gives back every row of a table or every value of the named columns. Used within CALCULATE, it works as a modifier that clears filters, although REMOVEFILTERS states that intent more clearly where it is available.
Related terms
- Agents (classic) API
First-generation Foundry Agent Service API, based on threads, messages and runs. It is deprecated, replaced by conversations and responses, and retires on 31 March 2027.
- Azure OpenAI On Your Data
Feature of Azure OpenAI, now deprecated, for grounding chat answers in your own content retrieved from a search index. Its replacement for new work is Foundry Agent Service paired with Azure AI Search or Foundry IQ.
- Foundry managed virtual network
Virtual network run by Microsoft that isolates outbound traffic from Foundry Agent Service and connects to Storage, Cosmos DB and AI Search over managed private endpoints. Once switched on, it cannot be turned off.
- Image generation tool
Foundry Agent Service tool, available out of the box, that lets an agent create pictures from text by pairing an orchestrator model with a gpt-image-1 deployment. It should not be confused with an input content type.