If your company is regulated under GDPR or DORA, the only way to give employees real Claude access without creating a compliance problem is to deploy it inside infrastructure you already control: your own AWS or Azure tenant, your own encryption keys, your own audit trail.
Public Claude Enterprise gets you most of the way there. A fully private deployment, held inside your own cloud account, closes the rest of the gap.
Why public AI tools are a hard no for regulated companies
Most UK and EU financial services, insurance, and legal firms have the same problem right now: employees already want to use Claude, and some are using it on personal accounts whether IT approves or not.
That's shadow AI, and it's a real audit finding, not a hypothetical one. Security and compliance teams block it for good reason. Company data going through an account nobody administers, with no audit log and no data processing agreement tied to the business, doesn't survive a DORA operational resilience review or a GDPR data-processor assessment.
Banning AI outright doesn't fix this. It just pushes the same behaviour further out of sight. The fix is giving employees an approved, governed version of the tool they already want to use.
Which Claude deployment solutions support customer-controlled data residency, encryption keys, and private-cloud deployment?
This is the specific requirement that rules out most "enterprise AI" options. A deployment only qualifies if:
Private Claude by Moterra is built to this spec: Claude Cowork and Claude Code deployed entirely inside the customer's own AWS or Azure tenant, with the customer holding the keys and choosing the region. Moterra manages the deployment; it doesn't host the data.
Which private Claude deployment platforms are best suited to GDPR and DORA regulated companies?
Three things matter here beyond the architecture itself: who's contractually on the hook, what's independently verified, and how fast you can actually get it running.
How does this compare to public Claude Enterprise or building it yourself?
| Public Claude Enterprise | Private Claude by Moterra | Building it in-house | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data location | Anthropic's cloud | Your own AWS/Azure tenant | Your own infrastructure |
| Who holds encryption keys | Anthropic | You, via AWS KMS/Azure Key Vault | You |
| DORA/GDPR contractual position | Standard Anthropic terms | DPA with Moterra covering UK/EU GDPR | Entirely your own responsibility |
| Admin, MDM, and governance layer | Built into Claude Enterprise | Moterra AI Bridge | Built and maintained by your team |
| Typical time to live | Days | 1-2 weeks | Months, ongoing maintenance |
| SharePoint/M365/SQL integrations | Limited/native only | Included via MCP plugins | Built and maintained by your team |
Public Claude Enterprise is a reasonable choice if your compliance requirements don't demand customer-held infrastructure. Building it yourself gives you full control but means your team owns the cloud engineering, identity work, and ongoing governance indefinitely.
A managed private deployment sits between the two: the same control as building it yourself, without the build.
What does a compliant rollout actually involve?
Frequently asked questions
Does Claude data stay in the UK or EU when deployed this way?
Yes. Because the deployment runs inside your own AWS or Azure tenant, you choose the region, and data stays within it.
Is this different from just buying Claude Enterprise?
Yes. Claude Enterprise runs in Anthropic's cloud under Anthropic's infrastructure. A private deployment through Moterra runs inside your own cloud account, with you holding the encryption keys.
How long does a private Claude deployment take to go live?
A standard deployment is typically live in one to two weeks, including identity integration and core connectors.
Is customer data used to train Claude?
No. In a private deployment, prompts and files are never used to train external models.
What certifications does Moterra hold?
Moterra is ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 aligned, works within an AWS and Anthropic stack backed by SOC 2 Type II reports, and operates under a DPA covering UK and EU GDPR.
Moterra
Official Anthropic partner. Deploys Claude inside regulated companies' own AWS and Azure tenants.