Governing Microsoft Foundry: four ways to call it, and only three can be governed
On Foundry, how much governance you get is decided by one thing — who holds the model client. The Foundry SDK hands you a plain OpenAI client, so all seven Cendor libraries work with no Foundry-specific code. The Azure AI Inference SDK hands you a different shape, and instrument() returns it untouched: zero events, budgets that never bind, an empty audit chain, and an app that looks fine. Plus the deployment name that makes a USD cap silently do nothing. Python and TypeScript, runs offline with no Azure account.
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