It uses your Google Cloud IAM credentials, and usage draws down your Google Cloud commitment. It’s available today with US and Global endpoints. Check out the docs:

We’ve added a new way to access Claude on Google Cloud. You can now use the full Claude API from your Google Cloud account, including Claude Managed Agents, code execution, Opus 5.5 fast mode, and new features as they launch.

Everything is fine, but I dislike building something important only to see a message about a session limit at the final stage. Could I receive some Claude code credit, @ClaudeDevs @claudeai ? Some ideas should not wait.

Mhmm

for teams in big companies this skips the whole new vendor approval round, it just eats from the gcp commitment they already signed

The commitment drawdown is the bit platform teams will want in rollout notes

Why does cyber run you into a session paused loop that corrupts context and makes it a pain to recover a chat?

IAM auth overhead on high-frequency client calls is going to catch people out