AI & Cloud Infrastructure
September 12, 2026OpenAI Agents API: US-only residency, your Azure options
OpenAI's Agents API, in public beta since 10 September, packages the Codex harness as a managed runtime with no platform fee, but its documentation limits data residency to the United States and rules out zero data retention even with a self-hosted sandbox. A side-by-side with Claude Managed Agents and Foundry hosted agents, with Sweden Central retail rates, shows runtime cost is a rounding error and residency and identity decide the choice.
OpenAI Agents API
Microsoft Foundry
Foundry Agent Service
Hosted Agents
Data Residency
GDPR
Claude Managed Agents
GPT-6 Astra
Sweden Central
By Falak Mahmood