Guardrails in the Cloud: Implementing Controls on AWS, Azure, and GCP

How legal obligations become running configuration: the enterprise LLM gateway pattern, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, Azure AI Content Safety and the Foundry stack, the Vertex AI safety stack — and how to map every control back to the audit.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

  1. From obligation to configuration
  2. AWS: Bedrock Guardrails and friends
  3. Azure: Content Safety and the Foundry stack
  4. Google Cloud: the Vertex AI safety stack
  5. One control plane, three clouds, one audit