Technology
By Jean-Luc Maracon
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How the Government Tier Stays Isolated. The separation isn't accidental. Anthropic runs its government service through Palantir's federal…
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Anthropic's Infrastructure Push. To be fair, Anthropic isn't sitting still. The company has secured agreements for up to 5…
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Anthropic's public AI service went dark for roughly 85 minutes on June 23. Government users? They didn't notice a thing.
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The disruption hit early that morning and touched pretty much every consumer-facing product Anthropic runs — claude.
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The numbers behind the two tiers are kind of striking when you put them side by side. The government service has held 99.93% uptime over a 90-day window. The public claude.
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The separation isn't accidental. Anthropic runs its government service through Palantir's federal cloud infrastructure, which carries FedRAMP High authorization — one of the…
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That's basically the whole point. When public systems buckle under load or hit technical snags, the federal environment stays clean because it's not drawing from the same pool.
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Public users don't get that lane. And they're starting to notice the difference.
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To be fair, Anthropic isn't sitting still. The company has secured agreements for up to 5 gigawatts of additional compute capacity from Amazon and is actively leasing more data…
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So the expansion plans are real, but they don't change the fundamental architecture. Two tiers. Two sets of expectations. Two very different uptime records.
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It's worth stepping back and thinking about what 20-plus incidents in 14 days actually means for someone who relies on Claude for daily work.
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The frustration is probably sharpest among users who've also run into the usage limits Anthropic rolled out recently.
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The answer, based on the architecture, seems pretty clear. Federal contracts come with strict uptime obligations, regulatory requirements, and FedRAMP compliance demands that…
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