AI Architecture
Microsoft Copilot Studio vs Microsoft Foundry: Which AI Agent Platform Should Your Business Choose?
Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry are not competitors — they sit at different levels of abstraction, and three changes in 2026 have quietly retired most of the advice written about choosing between them. A decision framework built on who owns the runtime, where the data already lives, and who operates the agent on day ninety, with the cost shapes, governance asymmetries and interop paths verified against Microsoft's own documentation.
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