🟢 Just shippedGA 2026-09-09
Microsoft Foundry Agent Service is now available in Azure Government, together with GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna through Microsoft Foundry. Microsoft describes the agents as usable with trusted data and tools and directed to follow organizational rules in secure mission environments; the post names no FedRAMP level, no DoD impact level and no region list.
Why it matters: sovereign-cloud parity for the agent runtime is the gate most public-sector deals wait on, though the missing authorization detail still has to be confirmed per tenant
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🟢 Just shippedGA 2026-09-09
Model router added Canada Central, North Europe, Norway East and UAE North. North Europe and Norway East support both Global Standard and Data Zone Standard deployments; Canada Central and UAE North support Global Standard only.
Why it matters: Data Zone Standard in North Europe and Norway East is the first EU-resident routing option, which decides whether EU and Swiss customers can use model router at all
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🟢 Just shippedPreview 2026-09-09
Applications can pass an opaque session ID so model router attempts the same eligible model across related conversation turns, preserving existing eligibility and fallback behavior. Responses report whether the request initialized, retained or switched the model association.
Why it matters: a router that swaps model mid-conversation is a common cause of tone and format drift in agent chat, and this is the supported fix
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🟢 Just shippedPreview 2026-09-09
Clients that opt into the preview response contract receive metadata reporting the routing mode, routing-trace latency, the ordered list of model attempts, HTTP status and returned errors, which exposes when automatic fallback fired on an individual request.
Why it matters: fallback was previously invisible, so cost and latency anomalies in a routed workload could not be attributed to a specific model
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