Giving Developers Claude Code with Azure API Management and Claude Models in Microsoft Foundry (opens in new tab)

Summary You want to give your engineering org Claude Code without handing out Anthropic API keys, without per-developer billing sprawl, and without losing visibility into who is spending what. This post shows a battle-tested pattern: Claude models run in Microsoft Foundry, billed through your Azure subscription — no Anthropic contract or keys required. Azure API Management (APIM) sits in front as an LLM gateway: it authenticates each developer with Entra ID, enforces per-user rate limits and ...