The Full Claude Desktop Experience on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry
Anthropic has expanded the Claude Desktop app to run on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry, allowing enterprise customers to access the full Claude experience—including Projects and Artifacts—through their preferred cloud platforms while maintaining data security and compliance requirements.
Background
- Anthropic is an AI company (best known for its Claude models) that competes with OpenAI (ChatGPT), Google (Gemini), and Meta. Claude Desktop is its local chat app for interacting with the Claude model.
- Until now, Claude Desktop was only available directly from Anthropic or via Amazon Bedrock. This announcement adds support for Google Cloud Vertex AI and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — two of the three major enterprise cloud platforms (along with AWS).
- For companies that already run everything on GCP or Azure, this means they can now use Claude Desktop without having to manage a separate subscription or send data to a different cloud provider. It's a play for enterprise adoption, where procurement, compliance, and data residency requirements often force teams to stick with a single cloud ecosystem.
- The move mirrors how OpenAI offers ChatGPT through Microsoft Azure, and signals that enterprise AI tooling is converging into a multi-cloud pattern: the model runs on the cloud you already use.