AI Foundry - Hub based Project to Foundry Project (or not) ?

[Messatsu92]

Hi everyone.

We currently have a use case in production involving a "Hub-based Project" : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/what-is-azure-ai-foundry .

In this use case, we rely on the AI Agent Service, which is currently in "Preview."

• Is there an ETA for the General Availability (GA) release of the AI Agent Service for "Hub-based Projects"?

• Should we plan to transition our "Hub-based Project" to a "Foundry Project"? Is there a recommended deadline for such a migration?

• Finally, does Microsoft recommend continuing work on existing Hub-based Projects despite the new guidance to develop new projects as Foundry Projects?

Thanks a lot by advance for your help.

[nrobert]

Hi,

I'm not working for Microsoft, so not an official answer. But from what I heard and understood: there will not be GA of Agents in hub-based projects. So you should migrate yes.

[carlotta94c]

Hi @Messatsu92 you can find some official guidance in this blog post https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AIPlatformBlog/build-recap-new-azure-ai-foundry-resource-developer-apis-and-tools/4427241.
Citing the blog above:
"Going forward, new agents and model-centric capabilities will only land on the new Foundry project type. This includes access to Foundry Agent Service in GA and Foundry API.

While we are transitioning to Azure AI Foundry as a managed platform service, hub-based project type remains accessible in Azure AI Foundry portal for GenAI capabilities that are not yet supported by the new resource type. Hub-based projects will continue to support use cases for custom model training in Azure Machine Learning Studio, CLI and SDK.

For a full overview of capabilities supported by each project type, see this support matrix."

So short answer is yes, you should plan to transition to 'Foundry projects' for Agents workloads in production, in a way to rely on GA services and get all the new capabilities/features as they are released. There's no an official recommended deadline, but I would plan it as soon as possible, for the reasons explained before.

If you need help with deployment automation, there's bicep and terraform scripts available here -> https://github.com/azure-ai-foundry/foundry-samples/tree/main/samples/microsoft/infrastructure-setup.