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Microsoft Foundry Now Has an AI Gateway Control Plane — What Changes for App Service Microsoft Foundry can now create or associate an APIM-based AI Gateway directly from its Admin console. Here's what that changes for an App Service-hosted agent, what stays in APIM, and the v2-tier constraint to check before migrating. -
MCP Enterprise Authorization Is Here — What Entra and App Service Can Do Today MCP Enterprise-Managed Authorization standardizes how enterprise identity reaches a resource authorization server. See what Entra ID and App Service provide today, what ID-JAG adds, and try both paths in a working Python sample. -
Give your AI agent two memories with Azure App Service Build an AI agent with two distinct memory horizons: bounded conversation history in Azure Managed Redis and durable, user-scoped semantic memory in Azure Cosmos DB, all hosted on Azure App Service. -
The Cloud's Most Underrated Feature: Someone Else to Blame The App Service team on the quiet superpower of the cloud — the closer you get to PaaS, the more of your infrastructure (and your outages) become someone else's problem. A love letter to the shared responsibility model, and a nudge toward App Service Managed Instance. -
The Iceberg Demo: Why the Best Ones Look Boring A to-do list. An online store. On the surface our demos look almost too simple — underneath they run the newest platform features, MCP, and multi-agent AI. An App Service PM on why that gap is the whole point. -
MCP Just Went Stateless — What the 2026 Spec Changes About Scaling on App Service The MCP 2026-07-28 release candidate deletes the handshake and the session header, so MCP is stateless at the protocol layer. Here's what that changes for horizontally scaling MCP servers on App Service — and why the pattern from Part 1 is now just how MCP works. -
Only 8.5% of MCP servers use OAuth — here's how to host one securely on App Service Most MCP servers ship with no authentication, and the CVEs are already piling up. This post walks through a hardened reference architecture on Azure App Service — Easy Auth with spec-compliant MCP authorization, managed identity, Key Vault, private endpoints, and APIM — that closes the 'exposed MCP endpoint' problem. One azd up deploys the lot. -
Now in Preview: Built-in MCP for Azure App Service Announced at Build 2026: built-in MCP turns a REST API you already host on App Service into a Model Context Protocol server — no MCP code to write, no second service to deploy. -
You can build a framework-agnostic AI gateway on Azure App Service — here's how AWS shipped Bedrock AgentCore as a closed, opinionated agent runtime. Azure's answer is the opposite — composable services you already have. This post walks through a runnable sample: one App Service hosting both an Agent Framework agent and the MCP server it calls, fronted by APIM with the AI Gateway policy set for token rate limiting, semantic caching, and per-subscription token-metric chargeback. One azd up deploys the lot — and the framework on top is genuinely interchangeable. -
Debugging Python apps on App Service with the new SSH helper aliases App Service's new SSH helper aliases turn the old playbook of 'open SSH and remember which 14 commands to run' into one-word commands like ai-diagnose, apphelp, and showpkgs. Co-authored with Tulika Chaudharie, this post tours the aliases against a deliberately fragile FastAPI sample that injects six realistic faults — and shows when ai-test being green is itself the diagnosis.