Anthropic Subprocessor Changes

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by tencentshill • 4 months ago

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tencentshill• 4 months ago

Notable: Added "Microsoft Azure, which provides cloud infrastructure for all Anthropic products (Worldwide)."

cdrnsf• 4 months ago

Hopefully it goes better for them than it has for GitHub.

dylan604• 4 months ago

hope in one hand and do something in the other to see which one fills up faster. hoping is always a strained good idea, but hoping on Azure really strains credulity

varispeed• 4 months ago

Ahh now it is clear why so many outages lately. Solid choice.

victor106• 4 months ago

When you host a solid model on terrible infrastructure, the infrastructure wins

pwarner• 4 months ago

Microsoft 365 Copilot has enabled Claude models, and I imagine they want that running on Azure?

jadbox• 4 months ago

Likely. MS doesn't like using models that are not hosted by them internally (see VSCode Copilot)

rvz• 4 months ago

There you go. So when Azure has an outage, so will Anthropic (and Github).

Now expect both of them to have unstable uptime and outages every week.

brookst• 4 months ago

You don’t thino Anthropic has any kind of resiliency, so net new compute reduces downtime? Any docs on that view?

CodeCompost• 4 months ago

That is significant for us. We have already accepted the risk of using Microsoft Azure so we use GitHub Copilot for that reason.

We have Claude disabled at the moment but if Anthropic has moved over to Azure then we can consider to start using it.

"Accepted the risk", just in case people don't know, is a compliancy term. I don't mean that Azure is risky.

speedgoose• 4 months ago

I don't mean that Azure is risky.

Depending on the company and their sector, people will nod in approval, or start laughing.

My company also accepted the risk of using Microsoft. We have a "data sharing agreement" together, with very powerful magical words. Compliance people are happy and sleep well.

ptx• 4 months ago

They added Microsoft but alongside them also list Google and Amazon for "all products".

gnabgib2• 4 months ago

Title: Welcome to the Anthropic Trust Center

.. was this a deep link? You might want to repeat in the comments

barbazoo• 4 months ago

Anthropic Subprocessor Changes
General
Published March 26, 2026
We've updated our subprocessor list with three additions

Works for me, gotta scroll down a bit

gnabgib2• 4 months ago

That's an h3 not a title. Looks like they probably meant: https://trust.anthropic.com/updates, it's still an entry in an h3 (with "Welcome to the Anthropic Trust Center" as the title), but it is at least the most recent update (canonical would stop this being directly linked)

octoberfranklin• 4 months ago

WTF is a "subprocessor"?

They should just be honest and say "data loophole".

pdabbadabba• 4 months ago

It is an important legal concept under the GDPR and other data governance frameworks.

dchuk• 4 months ago

It’s basically another party that is used as infrastructure by the company you’re using the services of, who has access to your data, but that sub processor doesn’t need to extend its terms down into the eula. So like if you host databases on aws, they are your sub processor.

craxyfrog2• 4 months ago

Worth noting the distinction between subprocessors that handle customer data vs. those that handle operational/business data. The ones in the "Customer Data" category are where the compliance implications are most significant for enterprise customers under GDPR, HIPAA, or similar frameworks.

For anyone evaluating this for a procurement decision: the relevant questions are (1) which subprocessors have access to content you send in API requests, (2) what data processing agreements are in place with each, and (3) what is the notification window for new subprocessor additions. The 30-day notice for customer data subprocessors is fairly standard for enterprise SaaS at this point.

Publishing this list proactively rather than only on request is a positive signal, even if the list itself is fairly short.

craxyfrog2• 4 months ago

Publishing this list proactively rather than only on request is a positive signal, even if the list itself is fairly short.

ehnto2• 4 months ago

With respect to my private data, it seems all roads eventually lead to California.

crefiz• 4 months ago

Sorry, what does that means? GDPR national here

alsetmusic• 4 months ago

Probably a reference to Silicon Valley?

ehnto2• 4 months ago

Just a quip that all technology companies seem to eventually include sending data back to a Californian company or startup, usually for the purposes of hosting, advertising or profiling.

asawfofor• 4 months ago

so i thought there were multiple fedramp service providers offering hosted claude models. not sure why they are linking to one in particular

dan000892• 4 months ago

Where are they linking to just one? The chart shows three: Palantir, AWS GovCloud, and GCP w/FR-High Assured Workload.

The chart should show ITAR also IMO. Only Palantir and AWS GovCloud would have checkboxes and that’s extremely relevant to defense contractors. (Vertex AI is available within an FR-High assured workload but not ITAR, the only conceivable reason for which would be foreign person access to the US sovereign production environment.)

yalogin• 4 months ago

I don’t know what I am looking at there. What is a subprocessor?

stingraycharles• 4 months ago

It’s a legal term for handling data. It’s when Anthropic uses an external party to handle their data / systems, but Anthropic is the legal entity responsible for the data privacy, as the customer (you) has a contract with Anthropic.

zvqcMMV6Zcr• 4 months ago

https://www.gdprsummary.com/gdpr-definitions/sub-processor/ in context of GDPR/DORA it is about formalized agreements with 3rd parties that will handle data, your own and of your clients.

ctmnt• 4 months ago

To be clear, for those reading these comments and thinking “oh no Azure”, this is an addition to the list of cloud companies that provide “cloud infrastructure worldwide” for “all products”. Alongside GCP and AWS. This is not a GitHub style announcement that they’ve moved all operations to Azure.

kleene_op• 4 months ago

Coincidently, Claude Code appears to be down right now (in Europe West at least).

Everytime I hear of something X Azure announcement, that something just seem to break right away.

I know correlation is not causation, but my opinion of Azure is already too damn low to not link those two events.

matheusmoreira2• 4 months ago

It's also down for me here in Brazil. Getting overloaded errors for about one hour now. It's been happening a lot this week. Is this normal for Anthropic?

louiereederson• 4 months ago

They announced a $30b+ commitment with Azure back in November, so not really a surprise that Azure is now listed as one of their cloud providers. https://www.anthropic.com/news/microsoft-nvidia-anthropic-an...

motbus3• 4 months ago

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