From single call to agents: five new Claude capabilities now available in Microsoft Foundry
Five agentic Claude capabilities now run on Azure-hosted Foundry, resolving enterprise data-residency trade-off
“That trade-off is now resolved. Structured outputs, Web search, Web fetch, MCP connector, and Tool search are available on deployments hosted on Azure.”
Microsoft Foundry now offers five agentic Claude capabilities—structured outputs, web search, web fetch, MCP connector, and tool search—on Azure-hosted deployments, not just Anthropic-hosted ones. This matters because regulated enterprises previously had to choose between agentic features and keeping prompts within Azure; that constraint is now lifted. The move signals deepening Anthropic-Microsoft integration and positions Foundry as a serious enterprise agent platform rather than just a model access layer.