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Azure AI Studio Azure AI Foundry

Unified enterprise AI development platform, portal, and SDK for discovering models, building generative AI applications, and orchestrating autonomous agents.

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  1. Azure AI Studio

    · Microsoft Build 2023 Public Preview & May 2024 GA

    Launched as a unified studio for generative AI prompt orchestration, model catalog exploration, and RAG grounding on Azure.

  2. Azure AI FoundryCurrent name

    · Microsoft Ignite 2024 Rebrand

    Rebranded from Azure AI Studio to Azure AI Foundry (and subsequently surfaced as Microsoft Foundry in documentation), adding the Azure AI Foundry SDK and Agent Service.

What is Azure AI Studio called now?

Azure AI Studio is now called Azure AI Foundry, with the latest change on 19 November 2024 (Microsoft Ignite 2024 Rebrand). Unified enterprise AI development platform, portal, and SDK for discovering models, building generative AI applications, and orchestrating autonomous agents. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.

Also known as

  • Microsoft Foundry
  • Foundry portal
  • Foundry (classic)

Technical identifiers

Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.

ARM Resource Providers (Microsoft.*)Microsoft.MachineLearningServices/workspaces Microsoft.CognitiveServices/accounts
Azure CLI (az) / PowerShellaz ml az cognitiveservices azd
Entra ID / Azure RBAC RolesAzure AI Developer Azure AI Administrator Cognitive Services User
Terraform Resources (azurerm_*)azurerm_ai_foundry azurerm_ai_foundry_project azurerm_machine_learning_workspace azurerm_cognitive_account

Hub-based Azure AI Foundry workspaces continue to use Microsoft.MachineLearningServices/workspaces while unified Foundry resources use Microsoft.CognitiveServices/accounts.

Notes & disambiguation

  • Announced in public preview at Microsoft Build in May 2023 as Azure AI Studio, reached general availability in May 2024, and rebranded to Azure AI Foundry at Microsoft Ignite on November 19, 2024.
  • In 2025–2026 Microsoft Learn documentation and product surfaces further evolved the top-level platform brand to Microsoft Foundry (with hub-based workspaces surfaced as Foundry (classic) alongside new Foundry projects).
  • Underlying Azure Resource Manager resources continue to provision across Microsoft.MachineLearningServices/workspaces (hubs and projects) and Microsoft.CognitiveServices/accounts (Foundry resources and model deployments), with Terraform supporting both azurerm_ai_foundry and azurerm_machine_learning_workspace.

Sources & official documentation

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