AI Architecture
Microsoft Foundry Explained: Enterprise Architecture for Production-Grade AI Agents
Microsoft Foundry is no longer a place to call models — it is a platform for hosting, grounding, governing and operating agents. A working architecture guide to prompt and hosted agents, Foundry IQ, Toolbox, MCP and A2A, model choice and Claude, agent identity and RBAC, private networking, evaluation and Agent 365 — with every capability marked GA, Preview or retiring, and the places Microsoft's own documentation contradicts itself named rather than smoothed over.
41 min read