Azure Data's developer story is getting good. Data API builder provides a drop-in replacement for most middle tiers with secure, feature-rich REST and GraphQL endpoints that expose SQL, Cosmos, Postgres, and MySQL in Azure, on-prem, or any cloud with a rich developer experience, CLI, and breadth of tools.

Azure Data's MCP story is also getting good. At the heart of our agentic play is Data API builder's new MCP experience, which provides DML and DQL interop for models in a novel and performant way that keeps security and scale top of mind. Integrated with AI Foundry, Entra, ACA, and SQL, the SQL MCP Server is an important puzzle piece.

For three years, Data API builder has given developers the flexibility, telemetry, and topological options they need to snap into the enterprise architectures of our largest customers and the earliest hobbyists. Free, open source, and fully supported, Data API builder is the cornerstone of our Data story arc to enable every developer.

But that's easy to say. Come see for yourself what Data API builder can do for classic line-of-business apps interacting with backend data sources, how massive chunks of a code base made redundant by the engine can be eliminated, and how intelligent apps integrating AI agents through LLM models can "just work" against your data sources.