Microsoft Foundry: from landing zone to internal AI platform, a RAG reference architecture

adnan_hashmi · x · 2026-10-26

An engineering guide on evolving Microsoft Foundry from a landing zone into an internal AI platform. It covers controlled knowledge ingestion (chunk/embed/index into Azure AI Search with source authorization), grounded answering via authenticated RAG queries against Foundry-hosted model deployments with source references, plus evaluation and monitoring for quality, freshness, latency, and cost. The platform provides private connectivity, identity, logging, and templates, while product teams decide source authorization, retrieval, and acceptance criteria.

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