"Microsoft unveiled its awkwardly named Copilot in Azure back in 2024. That was followed by the Azure Model Context Protocol Server, called from the GitHub Copilot agent in Visual Studio Code. Now, Microsoft is putting the band back together, with a new Azure Copilot that builds on both earlier projects to deliver a set of useful tools for all parts of the cloud application life cycle: for infrastructure as a service and platform as a service."
"Announced at Ignite 2025, the new Azure Copilot is a collection of specialized agents that can help you with a wide selection of different cloud management tasks, either on their own or working together. The original Copilot in Azure was an assistive chatbot, useful but unable to execute actions. You had to copy and paste responses into the Azure CLI or follow instructions in the portal."
Azure Copilot's new release comprises six specialized agents that perform a wide range of cloud management tasks autonomously or in coordinated workflows. The platform introduces an orchestration layer called 'agentic cloud ops' to manage and sequence actions across component agents. Standardization of Azure APIs through tools like TypeSpec and OpenAPI enables generative AI to parse service definitions and generate API calls from natural language. The system advances beyond assistive chatbots by executing actions via the Azure CLI, portal, and integrated agents. The agents cover both infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service needs and aim to simplify management amid rapidly evolving Azure services.
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