Claude gains a second deployment path on Google Cloud: Anthropic-managed, with new platform features on day one
Google Cloud has made generally available an Anthropic-managed deployment option for Claude models, sitting alongside the existing Google-managed option. Both deliver the same frontier models, the same pricing and the same Google Cloud billing; they differ in who acts as data processor and whether new Claude platform features are available when they launch. Under the Anthropic-managed option, Anthropic operates the stack on Google Cloud infrastructure, while organizations still authenticate with Google Cloud IAM and keep Cloud Audit Logging.