Azure AI Foundry

External APIs

Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft's unified platform, provides SaaS access to a broad catalogue of models, including OpenAI's GPT, Llama, Mistral and Phi, behind a managed API. European regions exist, including France Central and West Europe, which brings data hosting closer to home. The vendor remains a US entity, and is therefore subject to the Cloud Act. The platform uses it for non-sensitive innovation.

Key points: OpenAI and open models · Managed · EU regions · Non-sensitive.

Models served: GPT-5.5 and GPT-5 from OpenAI, the o series, Llama from Meta, Mistral, Phi from Microsoft, DeepSeek and Grok

Location: United States, EU regions available, subject to the Cloud Act.