Azure Foundry vs Copilot Studio: Which tool should you use?
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Azure Foundry vs Copilot Studio
This webinar explains how to choose between Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry when building AI agents in the Microsoft ecosystem. It contrasts Copilot Studio as a fast, no‑code option for simple automation and integrations in Microsoft 365, versus Azure AI Foundry as a more developer-focused platform offering deeper control, model choice, fine-tuning, governance, and better accuracy for complex or business-critical use cases.
The session includes a demo of Foundry features (model catalog, playground, agent building and publishing) and practical guidance on tool selection based on complexity, cost, and required reliability.
What can I learn?
- Learn a practical decision framework for choosing between Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry based on complexity, risk, and accuracy needs.
- Understand how to improve reliability through model selection, fine-tuning, evaluations, and guardrails – especially for business-critical use cases.
- See what Azure AI Foundry offers in practice (model catalog, playground, agent building, publishing) and how it differs from Power Platform-style development.
- Get guidance on security and data residency considerations (including options to keep data within Microsoft infrastructure and EU boundaries depending on configuration).
- Understand deployment options (publish agents to Teams/Microsoft 365 Copilot; target specific users, groups, or tenant-wide).
- Clarify cost and effort trade-offs (time-to-value and licensing/credits vs pay-as-you-go) to budget and plan agent work like a software project.
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
Markus Lykonhold is a Microsoft MVP and Senior Specialist in AI, Power Platform, and Copilot with extensive experience helping organizations use AI in a practical and secure way. He works daily to develop and deploy AI solutions, build Copilot agents, and establish governance that actually works in the real world. Markus is a sought-after speaker who is particularly skilled at making complex technology concrete, understandable, and useful for both IT and the business.
The Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) program recognizes exceptional leaders in society for their technical expertise, leadership, online influence, and commitment to solving real-world problems.
Markus Lykonhold
Public Cloud Architect – MVP Copilot
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