Claude on Azure Hits Production: Sonnet 5 GA Clears Procurement Barrier for Enterprises

Claude on Azure is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry: Opus 4.8, Haiku 4.5, and Sonnet 5 deploy through existing Azure accounts with MACC billing, Entra ID auth, and zero-contract access to enterprise AI governance, running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra inference hardware — no separate Anthropic contract required.