My experience with Microsoft Foundry has been largely positive. I primarily use it in conjunction with Azure Databricks, which has been a game changer in being able to handle heavy data prep and feature engineering. There is a bit of a learning curve for the interace, but being able to integrate feature stores in the foundry environment and the rest of our Azure data stack has expedited our analytical maturity for sure.

The evolution of Azure AI studio has become one of our main products for the internal customers for building AI applications. Model deployment and microsoft offering in terms of compliance allowed us to offer this resource for wide variety of applications. Problems with "new" foundry, stability of the SDKs and observability limitations we found as main drawbacks.