Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry) vs AWS Bedrock
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry)
Microsoft's Azure hub for enterprise models and agents
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AWS Bedrock
One AWS API for Claude, Llama, Nova and more
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
| Capability | — | — |
| Value for money | — | — |
| Ease of use | — | — |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — |
| API quality | — | — |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Free tier | No advertised free tier; usage bills from first request under the default S0 tier | No dedicated free tier; new AWS accounts get $200 signup credit usable across 200+ services |
| Paid from | — | On-demand from ~$0.000035/1K input tokens (Nova Micro) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | Tens of thousands of customers (2024) |
| Founded | 1975 | 1994 |
| Maker | Microsoft Corporation | Amazon.com, Inc. |
| Verdict | Renamed from Azure AI Foundry to Microsoft Foundry in January 2026 — the name changed, the product and your deployments didn't. It's Microsoft's enterprise AI hub: a model catalog that now spans OpenAI, Anthropic's Claud... |
Bedrock's pitch is switching cost. Point your code at one AWS API and you can move between Claude, Llama, Nova, and Mistral by changing a model ID — no rewrite when a better or cheaper model ships, and no GPU fleet to ma... |
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