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    "description": "Usage of Claude via Vertex AI is billed through the customer's Google Cloud billing account (consolidated with other GCP spend), rather than through a separate Anthropic Console billing relationship -- the same cloud-native-billing pattern Bedrock offers via AWS billing.",
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