Can companies run Claude Managed Agents on their own servers?
Anthropic now lets companies run its Claude Managed Agents service on their own servers, a change that gives businesses more say over where their AI agent data is kept. The self-hosted version launched Thursday, and customers must request access through their Anthropic account team, the company said in its release notes.
Managed Agents is Anthropic's service for running AI agents that use tools and remember past sessions. Until now, customers could run the agents' tools on their own machines, but Anthropic handled everything else, including the stored session histories and credentials.
What stays on the customer's systems with self-hosting?
With the new option, customers can run the whole service in their own cloud account or data center. Agents, session histories and credentials stay on the customer's systems, and every tool call can be logged.
The setup comes with a catch. Each time an agent asks Claude a question, the conversation still travels to a model provider. Customers can choose among Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry, but Claude itself does not run inside their network.
What are the trade-offs of self-hosting Claude agents?
Responsibility also shifts to the customer. Companies must now handle tasks Anthropic used to perform, such as securing and updating the server. Nothing moves over automatically from the hosted service, so agents and saved data have to be rebuilt. Some features, including webhooks and scheduled runs, are not available in the self-hosted version.
The change gives cautious companies more control over where agent data lives, a concern that carries particular weight in Europe. European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has warned about the risk of relying on foreign AI, and rivals such as Mistral have long pitched sovereign AI as the answer.
Other companies have taken different paths. OpenAI made a move in September by letting companies run its agents inside Amazon's cloud. Nvidia, meanwhile, has built hardware designed for safer agents.
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