🎉 Automation just became a team sport. Meet Azure Logic Apps Automation.

 

There's a moment that plays out in almost every organization right now. Someone closest a business problem - a retail ops lead, a finance analyst, a security analyst looks at a repetitive process and thinks, this should just run itself. For most of computing history, turning that idea into reality required specialized skills, significant setup, and engineering resources that were often focused elsewhere.

AI is changing that. Today, people can describe what they want in natural language and watch working solutions take shape. The bottleneck is no longer generating an idea for automation. It's turning that idea into something secure, governed, and reliable enough to run in production. The demos are everywhere. The question organizations are increasingly asking is the harder one: which of these can we actually run in production?

That's exactly the shift we built for.

Today at Microsoft Build we're introducing Azure Logic Apps Automation, a new Logic Apps SKU that delivers the experience of a modern SaaS product for creating and running workflow automations. It makes it easier for teams to get started quickly while preserving the security, governance, reliability, and scale organizations expect from Azure. It's open to builders of every kind, available now in public preview at https://auto.azure.com.

 

 

New experience, same enterprise engine

The goal was straightforward: simplify the experience of building and running automations without compromising the enterprise foundation underneath.

Logic Apps Automation provides a managed experience where compute, model endpoints, knowledge services, and execution environments are available out of the box. Teams can focus on solving business problems rather than assembling infrastructure and services.

We also introduced a dedicated SaaS experience designed around productivity and collaboration. Administrators establish governance and policies, while builders can quickly begin creating workflows without requiring deep Azure expertise.

"The redesigned experience lets me build AI-based solutions in record time. This platform will serve as the glue in most modern solutions.", Mick Badran, Founder & Director at SolveIT.Today [LA Automation Early Adopter]

What we kept is  just as important. Logic Apps Automation is built on the same Azure Logic Apps platform organizations trust today. The reliability, scale, security, governance, and operational maturity remain the foundation. The experience is simpler, but the platform underneath is the same proven technology customers rely on every day.

Low barrier to entry. Built for production. We mean both halves of that sentence.

Build like a startup, ship like an enterprise

Building an automation is only part of the full application journey. As solutions move from experimentation to production, along with simple experience, organizations need security, governance, networking, identity, and operational controls to ensure those automations can be trusted at scale.Logic Apps Automation is designed for both realities.

On the build side, it's fast to get started. Login and start building workflows; stay on a single canvas throughout the experience: use AI assisted workflow development, use visual workflows when they’re the right fit, and drop into code the moment you need additional control. No switching tools, no handoffs, no separate infrastructure to manage.

On the production side, organizations get the capabilities they expect from an enterprise platform, on day-0: isolated compute, virtual network integration and private endpoints, identity, role-based access, audit logging, and governance policies.

For many automation tools, becoming "enterprise-ready" is something that happens later. With Logic Apps Automation , production-readiness  is part of the foundation.

Built for how teams actually work

Making automation easier for builders shouldn't create additional complexity for administrators.

Organizations already have established governance boundaries, ownership models, and operational processes. Logic Apps Automation is designed to align with those realities through a simple two-level hierarchy of Projects and Applications. Project sits at the top and act as your security and governance boundary; inside each project you run one or more Applications.

Admins and project owners set networking policies, connector policies, sandbox configuration, and approved AI models once, at the project scope and every application inherits them. Builders get a wide-open space to create. Admins get a firm line around it. Nobody has to choose between the two.

Flexible permission management for individuals and teams

The permission model is also designed to match how teams collaborate:

• A private space for an individual. To give a single user a place to run their own automations with a privacy boundary around personal resources such as their email account - create an application that only that individual can access.
• A shared space for a team. To support an automation that several people co-develop and operate together, add multiple users to the application so they can build, run, and maintain it collectively.

The same model accommodates both access patterns, giving builders clear control over the scope of each application and who can work within it.

 

 

AI-native, not AI-retrofitted

Logic Apps Automation is designed for a new generation of business processes that combine workflows, AI agents, enterprise systems, and human decision-making.

It starts with how you build. A built-in AI Assistant turns plain language into working automation. You describe what you want and it drafts the workflow, configures actions, writes expressions, and generates inline code, then helps you edit the same way. You can author at the level of a single step or an entire end-to-end flow. This is the thing that opens the platform to *every* developer: the person closest to the problem can describe it and get something real, while pros stay in control and drop to code whenever they want.

"With the power of AI, automations just got on steroids! Simply tell it what you need, explain the intent, et voilà! Love it.", Sonny Gillissen,

Integration Architect at Rubicon Cloud Advisor [LA Automation Early Adopter]

Agents are first-class

Agents are first-class, and we meet you where you are with three ways to integrate them:

• Agent-loop orchestration. If you're already using Logic Apps actions as tools inside an agent loop, that pattern carries forward. Your actions are callable tools the agent can invoke, so you keep orchestrating the way you always have.
• Foundry agents. Connect to an existing Microsoft Foundry Hosted or Prompt Agent or create a new one right from the canvas. The platform handles the wiring, and your workflow calls the agent, gets results back, and keeps moving.
• Managed sandbox for agent harnesses. Bring a well-known agent harness, like GitHub Copilot and run it in a managed, isolated sandbox. We take care of the compute, the isolation, native shell access, and your GitHub repos as first-class context; you just define the business logic.

Then orchestrate all of these inside a larger workflow, right next to traditional rule-based actions, on a single canvas. Deterministic and agentic, in one place.

A few capabilities that make this especially powerful:

• Sandboxed agent harnesses. Run agent harnesses such as GitHub Copilot in a managed, isolated sandbox with shell execution, skills, and GitHub repos as first-class context, without operating any of that infrastructure yourself.
• Tools and MCP. Turn any of the 1400+ connectors into a tool or expose any workflow as an MCP server that any compatible agent can call. No code required.
• Knowledge as a Service. Drop in your documents and the platform handles ingestion, chunking, embeddings, and retrieval. No RAG pipeline to build, no vector store to operate; just grounded answers.
• Any model, anywhere. Plug in whatever fits the job: frontier, open-source, fine-tuned, or local. You're never locked in.

"Azure Automation closes the gap between integration and intelligence with agents as first-class workflow actions, grounded in your own data, executing in isolated sandboxes, all within the same canvas where your triggers and connectors live. Excited to see the evolution.", Sagar Sharma, Enterprise Solution Architect at i8c NL [LA Automation Early Adopter]

What's new in this release

Logic Apps Automation introduces several new capabilities designed to help teams build, deploy, and govern AI-powered automations:

• Zero-friction onboarding. Get from Sign-in to first workflow in minutes, with managed infrastructure and enterprise capabilities available from the start.
• A new designer. Modern designer with single pane experience to build and monitor workflows, draft-mode for workflows for easy iterations, instant code-to-workflow synchronization when you want to work in code-view, run history you can stream live, and so much more
• Natural language authoring. Describe workflows in plain language to create and edit them, with AI assistance in the designer.
• More powerful agents. Three ways to bring agents into a workflow; agent-loop orchestration, Foundry Hosted Agents, and well-known harnesses like GitHub Copilot running in a managed, isolated sandbox with shell access and GitHub repos as context.
• Knowledge as a Service. A managed knowledge layer that turns your documents into a ready-to-use knowledge base; no RAG pipeline required.
• JavaScript expressions. Write inline JavaScript to transform data and express logic without leaving the designer; no domain-specific language to learn.
• Projects and applications. A two-level governance hierarchy that gives admins a clear boundary and builders room to create. A permission management model that accommodates different level of access patterns, giving builders clear control over the scope of each application and who can work within it.
• Elastic scale, including to zero. Workflows scale up automatically when load arrives and scale all the way down to zero when there's no work to do. You pay only for the vCPU-seconds you actually use.

Built to scale

Logic Apps Automation scales automatically with demand, from idle workloads to business-critical processes. Customers pay only for the resources they use, without per-seat licensing requirements or infrastructure management overhead. When workflows aren't running, you're not paying for compute. When demand increases, the platform scales with you.

Pricing

Logic Apps Automation uses a consumption-based pricing model, so you pay only for what you use.  Pricing is based on a small managed-environment fee, workflow execution, and optional services such as AI model usage, knowledge, sandboxes, connector calls. There is no annual commitment, no per-seat license, no quota cliff. When your workflows sit idle, you pay nothing for compute. More details to follow soon.

What's available, and what's next

Logic Apps Automation is available today in public preview, with an intial  set of regions today, with more rolling out over the coming weeks. Here is the list of regions its available today:

• East Asia
• Sweden Central
• Australia East
• North Central US
• UK South
• Southeast Asia
• West US

Coming Soon

 We're continuing to expand the platform with additional AI and enterprise capabilities, including:

• Foundry Hosted Agents. Create or Invoke Foundry Hosted Agents directly inside your workflows.
• Foundry Prompt Agents. Create/Invoke Foundry prompt directly inside your workflows.
• Hosted Models. Managed model endpoints provided for you; no keys or infrastructure to bring.
• Inline Python. Write inline Python alongside JavaScript when you need it.
• Bring your own container image. Run your own code in sandboxes; for example, orchestrate a Python ETL job from within a Logic Apps workflow.
• VNet support and private endpoints.
• Custom connectors and more Automation templates. Build custom connectors, start from a growing library of templates, and set project-level policies on connectors and more.

Get started

Whether you're automating a business process, orchestrating AI agents, integrating enterprise systems, or building entirely new AI-powered experiences, Logic Apps Automation provides a simpler path from idea to production.

• Start building today at https://auto.azure.com
• Read the docs at http://auto.azure.com/docs
• Watch the announcement session at Microsoft Build 2026.
• See it live at the Integrate conference, June 8–9.