Azure Foundry Adds Voice Agents, Continuous Optimization, and 97% Token Reduction in Tool Search
Azure Foundry adds voice agents, continuous optimization tools, and tool search that cuts input tokens over 97% for 1,000-tool agents. What platform teams get.
AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud All Built Agent Sandboxes — None the Same Way
Every major cloud now treats isolated code execution as a native primitive for AI agents, but AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Cloudflare picked four different isolation boundaries.
AWS, Google, and Microsoft All Agree the Session Is the New Unit of Compute. They Can't Agree on How to Isolate It.
All three major clouds have independently arrived at the same architectural conclusion: the AI agent session, not the container or the function invocation, is the fundamental unit of compute. Their isolation approaches couldn't be more different.
Microsoft Foundry: Build 2026's Bet on Reliability Over Capability
At Build 2026, Microsoft shipped a cluster of Foundry updates that collectively look less like a developer preview and more like an enterprise runtime for agentic AI. Here's what changed and why it matters.
Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager Gets Cilium Cross-Cluster Networking
Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now spans clusters with Cilium-based cross-cluster networking. What changes for multi-cluster workload architecture.
Azure Fleet Manager: How Microsoft Governs Thousands of K8s Clusters
Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager governs thousands of K8s clusters via hub-spoke declarative policies — where GitOps' single-cluster model breaks down.
Azure Local on Galleon: When Cloud Must Work Without the Cloud
Azure Local on Armada's Galleon MDC delivers sovereign AI inference that runs fully disconnected, without cloud dependency, for defense and regulated industries.