Microsoft announced a major expansion of the AI gateway capabilities in Azure API Management at Build 2026. The headline additions: a Unified Model API that lets clients speak one API format while ...

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The same gateway can also front MCP servers (expose REST APIs as agent tools) and A2A agents (govern agent-to-agent traffic) with the same policies.

Azure MCP Server 2.0 is now generally available. All Azure MCP tools in a single server. The Azure MCP Server implements the MCP specification to create a seamless connection between AI agents and ...