Claude Reaches GA on Microsoft Foundry: European Enterprises Cannot Deploy It

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:13:00 GMT

Claude models reached GA on Microsoft Foundry with Azure-native billing and governance, but no European data zone exists. Anthropic's own documentation confirms data residency guarantees apply to Bedrock and Vertex AI but not Foundry. European practitioners from banking and healthcare report the offering is unapproved for production.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Apple Extends Private Cloud Compute to Google Cloud for the First Time

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:04:00 GMT

Apple chose Google Cloud to run Private Cloud Compute outside its own data centers for the first time, using NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Intel TDX, and Google's Titan chip. Apple maintains an independent append-only hardware ledger and dual-vendor attestation roots. AWS and Azure are not part of the collaboration.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

InfoQ - Data Privacy

Claude Reaches GA on Microsoft Foundry: European Enterprises Cannot Deploy It

Apple Extends Private Cloud Compute to Google Cloud for the First Time