Azure AI Agent Service

Azure AI Agent Service is Microsoft’s fully managed cloud platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and operate intelligent AI agents through a comprehensive runtime environment. At the center of this system is Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, enabling the operation of agents across development, deployment, and production. AI Foundry Agent Service connects the core pieces of Azure AI Foundry such as models, tools, and frameworks into a single runtime. The service integrates advanced language models including GPT-4o, Llama, and Mistral, while providing seamless access to knowledge sources from Bing, SharePoint, Azure AI Search, and other Microsoft ecosystem services. The Foundry Agent Service offers a fully managed cloud service with SDKs for Python and C#. It simplifies AI agent development, reducing complex tasks like function calling to just a few lines of code. Key capabilities include custom instruction configuration, code interpreter functionality, retrieval-augmented generation for enhanced accuracy, and enterprise-grade security features. The platform supports multi-agent workflows, autonomous task execution, and event-driven responses, making it suitable for enterprise applications requiring scalable AI agent deployment with minimal infrastructure management overhead.