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Google Cloud requests identify themselves with their own user agent

Requests sent through a Google Cloud client now carry the user agent AnthropicGoogleCloud/JS followed by a version

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What

A user agent is a label sent with each network request that names the program making it. Requests made through a Google Cloud client now send a user agent of the form AnthropicGoogleCloud/JS followed by a version number.

Why

Traffic sent through Google Cloud, such as Vertex AI, can now be told apart from other traffic.

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