Formerly known as Azure AI Services or Azure Cognitive Services is a unified collection of prebuilt AI capabilities within the Microsoft Foundry platform
Answered my own question via another, helpful route:
Yes, you can use it! @Ryan Little you are correct. Thanks, and here is a link to a more thoroughly worked example: https://github.com/hieumoscow/azure-openai-agents?tab=readme-ov-file
The agentic part of the example works great -- it will still complain a bit because it appears that tracing requires an openAI api key, but the rest is wonderful.