Microsoft Azure → Amazon Web Services
AWS equivalent of Foundry IQ (knowledge bases)
The closest AWS equivalent of Foundry IQ (knowledge bases) is Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases.
About Foundry IQ (knowledge bases)
| Provider | Microsoft Azure |
|---|---|
| Status | preview Preview Some features are GA and some are preview, depending on the Search REST API version. The portals expose preview-only access. |
| What it is | Multi-source, permission-aware knowledge bases for agents, using agentic retrieval on Azure AI Search, with sources such as Blob, SharePoint, OneLake, and the web. |
| Documentation | learn.microsoft.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
AWS mappings (1)
| Capability | AWS equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Managed RAG / knowledge bases | Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases | Direct match |
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Managed RAG / knowledge bases Direct match
The Azure equivalent of Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases is Foundry IQ knowledge bases, which run on Azure AI Search with agentic retrieval.
- Bedrock offers a Managed Knowledge Base (AWS runs ingestion, storage, and agentic multi-hop retrieval) or customer-managed vector stores (OpenSearch Serverless, Aurora, Neptune Analytics graphs, Kendra GenAI index, structured data stores).
- Foundry IQ is a multi-source knowledge base on Azure AI Search. It covers Blob, SharePoint, OneLake, and web sources, syncs ACLs, honors Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels, and enforces permissions at query time under the caller's Entra identity.
- Foundry IQ is partly GA and partly preview depending on the Search REST API version. Bedrock Knowledge Bases is GA.