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A Tour of the Handoff Orchestration Pattern Most multi-agent systems start out simple: a router agent receives a user request, picks the right specialist, and forwards the conversation. As long as each specialist can complete its task in one pass, that model works fine. The first time it breaks is when an agent needs more: a follow-up question for the user, additional context from another specialist, or a realization mid-turn that the request belongs somewhere else entirely. At that point, a fixed pipeline or one-shot router isn’t enough. What you need is a small, bounded graph where agents themselves decide who should speak next, without losing conversation context or violating guardrails. Handoff Orchestration  in Microsoft Agent Framework is the pattern built for that case. The developer declares the participating agents and the directed edges between them, and the framework injects the tool calls each agent uses to transfer control along those edges. Routing decisions stay wit...

Amazon SES Mail Manager is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, expanding Mail Manager coverage to 30 AWS regions. Amazon SES Mail Manager provides a centralized gateway to manage all inbound and outbound email traffic with advanced routing, filtering, and archiving capabilities. It simplifies complex email infrastructure by replacing the need for multiple third-party tools with a single, scalable solution integrated directly into AWS. This gives organizations greater visibility and control over their email flows while reducing operational overhead and cost. The new Mail Manager regions include AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). The full list of Mail Manager region availability is  here . To learn more, visit the  SES Mail Manager documentation . Post Updated on May 7, 2026 at 08:00AM

Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now detects customer time zones using all phone numbers and addresses on a customer profile, not just the primary contact fields. Previously, time zone detection used only the primary phone number, which could miss customers who span multiple time zones. When a profile's contact information spans multiple time zones, the system delivers only during hours that fall within your configured window in every detected time zone, and skips profiles when no overlap exists. For example, if a customer has a mobile number with an Eastern time area code and a business number with a Pacific time area code, and your campaign is configured for 9am–5pm delivery, messages will only be sent between 12pm–5pm ET (9am–2pm PT), when both time zones fall within the allowed window.  This capability is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns is offered at no additional cost. To learn mor...

Azure Cosmos DB enables scalable AI-driven document processing, addressing one of the biggest barriers to operational scale in today’s enterprise AI landscape. Organizations continue to manage massive volumes of structured and unstructured content—contracts, regulatory filings, operational records, images, and field documentation—yet many workflows remain fragmented, manual, and slow. Every month, the Scalable AI in Action with Azure Cosmos DB series brings the community together with Microsoft partners who are building real, production AI systems — not slides, not demos built for the occasion, but live walkthroughs of solutions already solving enterprise problems at scale. In this month, we were thrilled to welcome AVASOFT , a Microsoft partner with deep expertise across Modern Work, Data & AI, and Digital App Innovation. The leadership fireside chat was presented by Sairam Srinivasan, CTO at AVASOFT, who addressed our questions with depth and candor. In the Architecture segme...

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports the VPC egress option, which allows your virtual private cloud (VPC) domain to establish private network connections to resources in your VPC, such as ML models, AWS services, and custom applications, without exposing traffic to the public internet. When you enable the VPC egress option, OpenSearch Service adds network interfaces to the subnets you selected for the domain and routes outbound traffic into your VPC. You can enable or disable the VPC egress option using the Amazon OpenSearch Service console, AWS CLI, or the CreateDomain and UpdateDomainConfig API operations. VPC egress is now supported in all AWS Regions where Amazon OpenSearch Service is available. To get started, refer to Routing domain egress traffic through your VPC . Post Updated on May 7, 2026 at 01:30AM

Introduction Converting natural language questions to SQL is valuable but difficult. At first glance, given a question and a database schema, generating correct SQL seems straightforward. In reality, it is complex. LLMs must understand table relationships, disambiguate terminology, apply correct joins, and handle real-world database messiness: obscure table and column names, unnormalized data, and key data buried in JSON columns. To face these challenges, you need a system capable of performing interactive data discovery and reasoning over intermediate results. This system must then create a SQL query that retrieves the data needed to satisfy the user's question. This post describes our approach to building a system which translates natural language (NL) user questions to SQL queries. We evaluated multiple AI agent approaches (Azure Databricks AI/BI Genie, custom implementations via GitHub Copilot CLI and Microsoft Agent Framework) using an evaluation framework derived from LiveS...