Azure Cognitive Services
Add cognitive capabilities to apps with APIs and AI services.
Overview
Azure Cognitive Services are cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) services that help developers build cognitive intelligence into applications without having direct AI or data science skills or knowledge. They are available through REST APIs and client library SDKs in popular development languages. Azure Cognitive Services enables developers to easily add cognitive features into their applications with cognitive solutions that can see, hear, speak, and analyze.
Key Resources
News
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| 2/11/2026 |
In Part 1, we introduced the App Service Observability MCP Server — a proof-of-concept that lets GitHub Copilot (and other AI assistants) query your App Service logs, analyze errors, and help...
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| 1/29/2026 |
Introduction
Picture this: You've built an AI agent that analyzes financial data. A user uploads a quarterly report and asks: "What are the top three expense categories?" Behind the scenes, your...
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| 12/26/2025 |
We spent a long time chasing model upgrades, polishing prompts, and debating orchestration strategies. The gains were visible in offline evals, but they didn’t translate into the reliability and...
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| 11/28/2025 |
This sample application demonstrates how to implement various AI scenarios on Azure App Service using Azure AI Foundry. It provides production-ready code that you can integrate into your existing...
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| 11/19/2025 |
（これは 2025/11/13 に出された製品チームの記事『Bulletproof agents with the durable task extension for Microsoft Agent Framework』を日本語に翻訳したものです。）
本日 (2025/11/13)、Durable Task Extension for Microsoft Agent...
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| 11/11/2025 |
AI Agents are no longer just a developer’s playground. They’re becoming essential for enterprise automation, decision-making, and customer engagement. But how do you build them? Do you go...
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| 10/1/2025 |
As organizations accelerate their AI adoption on Microsoft Azure, governance, compliance, and security become critical pillars for success. Deploying AI workloads without a structured compliance...
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| 9/29/2025 |
Securing AI Workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Purview and Sentinel in Azure Landing Zones
In this blog, we’ll cover:
Why AI Landing Zones matter.
Security threats specific to AI workloads.
Mapping Azure security services into AI Landing Zone design areas.
A reference architecture...
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| 9/25/2025 |
This architecture diagram illustrates a Microsoft Azure AI Landing Zone Pattern — a scalable, secure, and well-governed framework for deploying AI workloads across multiple subscriptions in an...
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| 9/25/2025 |
Governance Principles
Least Privilege: Grant only the permissions required for each role.
Segregation of Duties (SoD): Separate responsibilities for build, deploy, operate, and...
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| 9/2/2025 |
This tiny app just does one thing: upload an image → get a natural one-line caption. Under the hood:
Azure AI Vision extracts high-confidence tags from the image.
Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o-mini)...
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| 5/19/2025 |
2025 is the year of AI agents, and the recent AI Agents Hackathon proved it in style. This free, three-week virtual hackathon (April 8–30, 2025) brought together developers worldwide to build...
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| 3/20/2025 |
Java remains a cornerstone in today’s AI-driven world, offering scalability, high performance, and seamless integration for enterprise applications. Microsoft continues its commitment to Java...
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| 2/25/2025 |
Overview
With the introduction of Azure AI Foundry, integrating various AI services to streamline AI solution development and deployment of Agentic AI Workflow solutions like multi-modal,...
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| 2/21/2025 |
If you’ve ever engaged with content on the Microsoft Learn platform, it's highly likely that the material you utilized was written or co-authored by dedicated contributors. These...
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