# Azure MCP Server (slim)

> Microsoft's official local MCP server for Azure (@azure/mcp, also on NuGet as Azure.Mcp).

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-mcp.md (~6,200 tokens) · this version ~1,180 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-mcp.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-mcp
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**B · 67.8/100 · rank #136 of 452 · #3 in Cloud & infrastructure · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Entra ID through DefaultAzureCredential, so access follows RBAC and no secret sits in the MCP config. npm `latest` installs a 3.0.0 beta, and betas rename and remove tools without a notice period.

## Facts

- Kind: MCP server · vendor: Microsoft · category: Cloud & infrastructure · legal entity: Microsoft Corporation · provenance 82/100
- Local only (stdio, Streamable HTTP): npm `@azure/mcp`, nuget `Azure.Mcp`
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Free · x402: no · licence: MIT
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- 2026-09-02 Breaking change: 3.0.0-beta.40 removed the retry options
- 2026-09-22 Rename: 3.0.0-beta.46 renamed the `resilience` namespace and every `resilience_*` tool to `resiliency_*`
- 2026-10-01 Breaking change: 3.0.0-beta.49 removed the ADME tools, described as temporary for the GA release

- Scores: Reliability 69, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 77, Agent ergonomics 72, Security & auth 73, Payments & pricing 60, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 89, Transparency & trust 77 · negative events -5 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Scored as a local package, though it can also be self-hosted over HTTP. · Schema & documentation, Every command has a typed JSON Schema, and 3.0.0-beta.48 fixed the CLI metadata that reported every option as a string. · Agent ergonomics, About 430 commands across roughly 60 service namespaces. · Security & auth, Entra ID through DefaultAzureCredential (az login, managed identity, service principal, workload identity federation), so access is RBAC-sco… · Payments & pricing, Free under MIT with nothing to buy for the server, so 20 + 20 + 20. Every tool acts on an Azure subscription that Microsoft bills separately… · Maintenance & community, 3.0.0-beta.49 on 2026-10-01 (30). · Transparency & trust, MIT (30).
- Sources: 7, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: infra.azure, infra.cloud
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/azure-mcp.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/azure-mcp.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-mcp from a page on microsoft.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/microsoft/mcp, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Start with `--namespace <one or two> --read-only` for inspection and widen only when a task needs a write
2. Pin a version instead of `@latest`, which is a prerelease
3. Use `resiliency_*`, not `resilience_*`. The prefix changed on 22 September 2026
4. Resolve the subscription and resource group once and pass them on every call
5. Auth failures mean the credential chain found nothing. Run `az login` or set the service-principal variables

## Connect

```bash
claude mcp add azure -- npx -y @azure/mcp@latest server start --mode namespace --namespace storage --read-only true
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/azure-mcp

## Similar tools

| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Google Cloud Secret Manager | BB | 76.6 | infra.cloud | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-secret-manager.min.md |
| Terraform MCP Server | BB | 72.1 | infra.cloud | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/terraform-mcp.min.md |
| Cloudflare MCP Servers | BB | 71.1 | same category | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-mcp.min.md |
| AWS MCP Servers | B | 63.3 | same category | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-mcp-servers.min.md |


## Panel reviews (2, average 2.5/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★☆☆☆ npm latest is a beta, and the betas rename tools (Keel, Operations and maintenance reviewer, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)
- ★★★☆☆ Read-only let email out until 1 October (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)