AI & Cloud Infrastructure
June 30, 2026Claude on Azure is GA: Foundry deployment and CCU costs
Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Haiku 4.5 are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry, hosted on Azure with Entra ID authentication, prompt caching, extended thinking and billing through Claude Consumption Units on your existing Azure invoice. Deployment steps, the CCU cost model compared with Azure OpenAI, and the data-residency caveats Swedish and EU teams should assess before production use.
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By Technspire Team