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Azure API Management Adds Dedicated AI Gateway Tier, Governing Models and MCP Tools

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:35:00 GMT

Microsoft released a dedicated AI Gateway tier of Azure API Management in public preview, with a control plane built around models, MCP servers and tools rather than APIs. It fronts Foundry, Bedrock, Vertex AI and OpenAI behind one endpoint, with policy cards instead of XML. Architects welcomed the consolidation while questioning where the governance boundary sits.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Wiz Discloses CosmosEscape, and Practitioners Debate What Customers Could Have Done

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:21:00 GMT

Wiz Research disclosed CosmosEscape, a chain that escaped Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin sandbox and reached a platform-wide key granting read and write access to every database on the service. Microsoft blocked the entry point within two days but took until July 2026 to remove the key. Practitioners debated shared responsibility and what that rearchitecture actually cost.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Azure and Community Guidelines on Choosing between a Skill or a Sub-Agent

Sergio De Simone — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT

In a recent Azure Architecture blog article, Azure lead engineer Kishorekumar Pattabiraman outlines practical criteria for choosing between skills, sub-agents, and other approaches when building AI systems, emphasizing reusability, simplicity, and long-term maintainability.

By Sergio De Simone

Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and Hosted Agents Reach General Availability

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:30:00 GMT

Microsoft's Agent Framework now ships a supported runtime. Build 2026 brought the Agent Harness, the GitHub Copilot and Claude Agent SDK connectors, and the orchestration patterns to stable release; the harness and Foundry Hosted Agents have since reached GA. The shift is from an SDK for building agents to a governed platform for running them.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Microsoft Three-Layer LLM Routing Architecture for AI Agents on AKS

Claudio Masolo — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Microsoft has released a reference architecture for routing agent traffic on Azure Kubernetes Service. It breaks down the issue into three key choices: which model answers a call, how the call is managed, and which GPU replica handles it.

By Claudio Masolo