Google Model Armor

Google

Vendor

Model-agnostic prompt and response safety screening layer across Google enterprise infrastructure.

Proprietary

Strengths

Practitioner note

Worth evaluating for Google-first estates that need managed prompt and response protection, especially around injection and unsafe content controls.

Reviewed 2026-05-26

PartialData residency

US/EU regional endpoints; in-memory processing without durable retention unless logging enabled.

YesDeployment model

Stateless cloud-native SaaS via regional API; standalone or with Security Command Center. (saas)

YesAudit logging

Audit logs via Cloud Logging filtering on modelarmor.googleapis.com.

YesSOC 2

Runs on SOC 2 Type II Google Cloud infrastructure.

YesISO 27001

Runs on ISO/IEC 27001-certified Google Cloud infrastructure.

UnknownISO 42001

Model Armor not confirmed in Google Cloud ISO 42001 scope as of 2026-05.

N/AEU AI Act

Prompt/response screening component; supports operators' compliance, not itself high-risk. (role: not-applicable)

YesLicense risk

Proprietary GCP SaaS; full dependency on GCP. (medium)

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