Release2026-09-01

Anthropic announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, a setup that keeps customer activity data out of its own systems. Data used for misuse monitoring sits in the customer's cloud account, under their keys and access rules. Automated systems scan a rolling window of traffic for serious misuse signals. Flags go straight to the customer, and no Anthropic employee reviews them. Anthropic built it with over 100 customers and with Amazon, Google and Microsoft. It will support Claude Code, Claude Enterprise, the Claude Platform, Amazon Bedrock, Google's Agent Platform and Microsoft Foundry. Rollout starts in phases later this autumn, with broad availability targeted for the same season. Eligible customers keep zero data retention on Fable 5 and 5.1 until then. Storage, customer-managed keys and automated review are each opt-in. Anthropic charges nothing, but cloud providers bill for storage, reads, writes and egress.

What changed

Anthropic retained enterprise activity data for 30 days from Fable 5 onward.

What it unlocks

Running frontier Claude models while activity logs stay in the customer's own cloud account under their own keys.

  • 100+ customers in design
  • 30-day retention since Fable 5
  • no Anthropic charge for EFS

What you need to act on it

  • enterprise customer eligibility
  • request via access form
  • opt-in configuration of storage, keys and automated review
  • own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud account for storage

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