Question

You are building a generative application in Azure AI Foundry that must answer employee HR questions using an existing Azure AI Search index that already contains vectorized and semantically enriched HR policy documents. You want to consume the index from your Foundry-based application through a supported, managed integration rather than writing custom HTTP calls to the search service, and you want the connection to be reusable across projects in the hub. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Create an Azure AI Search connection in the Foundry hub and reference it through the Foundry SDK connector to consume the index.

Answer

Embed the Azure AI Search admin key directly in the application code and query the REST endpoint with a custom client.

Answer

Copy the search documents into a local vector store file and attach it to each application session at runtime.

Answer

Recreate the index inside Foundry by re-uploading and re-embedding all HR documents through the SDK before querying.