Scale One AI Agent Across Sites (Part 2)
Microsoft advocates hybrid agent architecture to deploy one AI agent across 300 industrial sites
“I have one agent framework that can ultimately run anywhere.”
Microsoft's VP of Cloud AI Engineering outlines a blueprint for scaling agentic AI across industrial manufacturing sites using a hybrid cloud/edge architecture. The core insight is that factories cannot push everything to the cloud due to latency and resiliency constraints, nor can they run fully isolated on-premise instances at scale. The proposed solution is a single composable agent framework deployable across cloud, edge, and fully disconnected 'Iron Dome' environments.