--- title: Introducing the new hosted agents in Foundry Agent... description: Microsoft is launching hosted agents in the Azure AI/Microsoft foundry Agent Service (public preview), providing per-session VM-isolated sandboxes with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-the-new-hosted-agents-in-foundry-agent-service-secure-scalable-compute-built-for-agent-0euoil4hi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing the new hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service: secure, scalable compute built for agents | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft is launching hosted agents in the Azure AI/Microsoft foundry Agent Service (public preview), providing per-session VM-isolated sandboxes with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-the-new-hosted-agents-in-foundry-agent-service-secure-scalable-compute-built-for-agent-0euoil4hi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0eUOiL4HI.png og:image:alt: Introducing the new hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service: secure, scalable compute built for agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing the new hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service: secure, scalable compute built for agents **[DevBlogs](https://daily.dev/sources/devblogs)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft is launching hosted agents in the Azure AI/Microsoft foundry Agent Service (public preview), providing per-session VM-isolated sandboxes with persistent filesystems designed specifically for production enterprise AI agents. Key features include scale-to-zero economics with filesystem-preserving resume, predictable cold starts, per-agent identity via Microsoft's own identity system (OBO), BYO VNet support, and built-in observability. The platform supports any agent framework (LangGraph, AutoGen, OpenAI SDK, Claude SDK, etc.) and any model, deployed via a single `azd deploy` command. Also announced alongside: a unified tool management layer (MCP-compatible), managed long-term memory, Microsoft Agent Framework v1.0 (merging AutoGen and SemanticKernel), and enterprise governance features including DLP and responsible AI guardrails. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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