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Claude Platform on AWS

Anthropic has announced the general availability of its full Claude Platform on AWS, deeply integrating its advanced AI models with AWS's authentication, billing, and infrastructure. This provides AWS customers direct access to Claude's comprehensive suite of features, including agents, tools, and developer consoles, directly within their existing AWS environment. The move simplifies enterprise adoption of Claude by streamlining deployment, management, and cost tracking for organizations heavily invested in the AWS ecosystem.

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The Lowdown

Anthropic has officially launched the Claude Platform on AWS, making its complete suite of AI capabilities directly accessible to AWS customers. This new offering allows users to integrate Claude's powerful models and tools using their existing AWS authentication, billing, and commitment retirement, marking a significant expansion of Claude's availability beyond Amazon Bedrock.

Key features and implications of this launch include:

  • Comprehensive Feature Access: Customers gain access to the full Claude API feature set, including new functionalities and beta releases, on the same day they become available on Anthropic's native platform.
  • Seamless AWS Integration: Authentication leverages AWS IAM, audit logging is handled via CloudTrail, and billing is consolidated into a single AWS invoice, simplifying management for teams.
  • Advanced AI Tools: The platform includes Claude Managed Agents (beta), Advisor strategy (beta), web search/fetch, code execution, a Files API (beta), Skills (beta), an MCP connector (beta), prompt caching, citations, and batch processing.
  • Developer Environment: Access to the Claude Console is provided, offering tools like a prompt improver, generator, and evaluation utilities.
  • Model Availability: Supports Claude Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5, with future models to be integrated upon their release.
  • Deployment Flexibility: The article clarifies the distinction between Claude Platform on AWS (Anthropic-operated, data processed outside AWS, full features) and Claude on Amazon Bedrock (AWS-operated, data processed within AWS, suitable for strict data residency).

This initiative empowers AWS users with robust options to deploy and scale AI solutions, ensuring that businesses can choose the integration path best suited for their operational needs and data governance requirements.