November 18, 2025 · AzureLaunched
Generally Available: Streamline IT governance, security, and cost management experiences with Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry streamlines AI development and management
for the enterprise. These features are now generally available, empowering IT
admins to deploy AI solutions while meeting enterprise-grade security,
compliance, and governance requirement:
Learn more:
- Manage Foundry costs with Azure Cost Management: Attribute and track costs at the Foundry resource and model deployment level with tags, set budgets with alerts and auto-pause, and provide developers with visibility into costs at the deployment, agent, and run level for AI apps using Azure Cost Management.
- Manage Foundry resources with a unified dashboard in Azure Portal: View and manage all resources, projects, connections, users, quota, and API Management integrations for Foundry from a unified dashboard within Azure Portal.
- NSP Support for Foundry and Azure OpenAI: Isolate resources within secure, private boundaries using VNETs and private endpoints. This feature ensures data never traverses public networks, simplifies compliance, and strengthens protection against data exfiltration, making it ideal for regulated industries and sensitive workloads.
- BYO Key Vault connection for Foundry resources: Securely store and manage secrets, credentials, and encryption keys using your own vaults to ensure compliance.
Learn more:
- Set up Key Vault connections
- Learn about managing AI solutions