ehnto
6 hours ago
With respect to my private data, it seems all roads eventually lead to California.
Anthropic Subprocessor Changes
66 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by tencentshill27 Comments
ctmnt
an hour 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.
tencentshill
10 hours ago
Notable: Added "Microsoft Azure, which provides cloud infrastructure for all Anthropic products (Worldwide)."
CodeCompost
2 hours 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
an hour 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.
pwarner
9 hours ago
Microsoft 365 Copilot has enabled Claude models, and I imagine they want that running on Azure?
jadbox
8 hours ago
Likely. MS doesn't like using models that are not hosted by them internally (see VSCode Copilot)
cdrnsf
9 hours ago
Hopefully it goes better for them than it has for GitHub.
varispeed
9 hours ago
Ahh now it is clear why so many outages lately. Solid choice.
rvz
9 hours 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.
yalogin
5 hours ago
I don’t know what I am looking at there. What is a subprocessor?
stingraycharles
3 hours 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.
asawfofor
5 hours 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
5 hours 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.)
craxyfrog
6 hours 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.
craxyfrog
6 hours 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.
gnabgib
10 hours ago
Title: Welcome to the Anthropic Trust Center
.. was this a deep link? You might want to repeat in the comments
barbazoo
10 hours 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
gnabgib
10 hours 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
9 hours ago
WTF is a "subprocessor"?
They should just be honest and say "data loophole".
dchuk
7 hours 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.
pdabbadabba
9 hours ago
It is an important legal concept under the GDPR and other data governance frameworks.