Claude models are now GA on Google Cloud with Anthropic managing the infrastructure. This means you can run Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku directly through GCP while using Google's native IAM for auth, consolidated billing through your GCP account, and commitment-based pricing that counts toward your Google Cloud spend commitments.
The setup gives you full Claude API features (streaming, function calling, vision, 200K context) but routes everything through Google's infrastructure. Useful if you're already deep in GCP and want to avoid multi-cloud billing headaches or need to satisfy compliance requirements that mandate GCP-only deployments.
Latency should be comparable to direct Anthropic API calls since it's still Anthropic's backend, just with a GCP wrapper for auth and billing. Check if your existing GCP enterprise agreements cover this before spinning up workloads.
The setup gives you full Claude API features (streaming, function calling, vision, 200K context) but routes everything through Google's infrastructure. Useful if you're already deep in GCP and want to avoid multi-cloud billing headaches or need to satisfy compliance requirements that mandate GCP-only deployments.
Latency should be comparable to direct Anthropic API calls since it's still Anthropic's backend, just with a GCP wrapper for auth and billing. Check if your existing GCP enterprise agreements cover this before spinning up workloads.
