Microsoft outlines Azure cloud foundation for AI agents

Microsoft has published guidance on building a cloud-native foundation for AI applications and agents on Azure.

• The article frames Azure as the platform for AI workloads, emphasizing compute, storage, networking, open-source technologies, and operations tooling such as Azure SRE Agent, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure Container Apps.
• It cites Basecamp Research as an example, saying it used Azure to assemble 9.7 trillion nucleotides for EDEN and reported laboratory validation across three therapeutic applications in about three weeks; it also references a Gartner forecast that by 2028, 95% of new AI agent deployments will use Kubernetes.