Taming the Wild West: A Blueprint for Governing AI Agent Sprawl
It doesn’t take long for AI agents to get out of hand. In the race to innovate, enterprises often find themselves buried under a “sprawl” of autonomous systems, leading to uncomfortable questions about ownership, data access, and runaway token budgets. When developers can deploy an agent in minutes, the challenge shifts from building to governing—shifting the focus from model quality to operational stability.
This new reference architecture solves the chaos by introducing a multi-region AI agent landing zone on Azure. The core principle is simple: separate control from execution. By layering the Azure AI Gateway for request-level limits, the Foundry Control Plane for behavioral evaluation, and Microsoft Agent 365 for tenant-wide identity and compliance, IT teams can transform AI from a fragmented experiment into a secure, observable, and first-class workload.
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