Agentic cloud ops with the new Azure Copilot

Azure is complex and ever-changing. New services launch almost daily, and APIs update and change on a rapid cadence. Under the hood, tools and technologies like the TypeSpec language allow Microsoft to automate the process of documenting and publishing Azure’s APIs, delivering them as OpenAPI format documents. By standardizing the structure of its APIs, Microsoft has made it relatively simple for the latest generation of generative AI tools to parse and use them, generating the requisite calls and fielding responses, providing a natural language interface to the heart of Azure.

One key feature of the new Azure Copilot is that it works wherever you work, so you can access it in the portal, with a new agent dashboard, in a chat interface, or via the Azure CLI. This approach fits well with Microsoft’s long history of delivering tools that surface where they’re needed, making them part of your workflow instead of you having to be part of theirs.

Six new agents make up the Azure Copilot stack: Migration Agent, Deployment Agent, Observability Agent, Optimization Agent, Resiliency Agent, and Troubleshooting Agent. The intent is to support key pieces of the Azure operations platform, leaving the Azure MCP server in Visual Studio Code to support cloud development. The agents themselves have access to Azure tools and APIs, as well as knowledge bases like Learn. They can also use your deployed resources in the Azure Resource Manager and the associated Azure Resource Graph.