Azure Foundry advances governed enterprise agents with GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is generally available in Microsoft Azure AI Foundry with computer use, structured multi-step execution, and legacy-application support. Entra, RBAC, private networking, and approval controls provide containment, while pricing reportedly ranges from $10 to $75 per million tokens. Teradata's OneLake integration adds evidence that Microsoft is pairing governed agentic AI with open enterprise data access through Apache Iceberg.