AWS has officially launched Claude Platform on AWS, making it accessible to customers through their existing AWS accounts. This move marks the first time a cloud provider has offered native access to the Claude Platform. Developers and organizations can now utilize Claude APIs, the Claude Console, and early-access beta features without the need for separate Anthropic accounts.
The launch of Claude Platform on AWS builds upon previous agreements between AWS and Anthropic. With Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic reaching US$8 billion in November 2024, AWS became the company’s primary cloud and training partner. In April 2026, Amazon and Anthropic further strengthened their relationship, with Anthropic securing up to five gigawatts of Amazon Trainium chip capacity and committing over US$100 billion to AWS technologies over the next decade.
Unlike Amazon Bedrock, where Claude models are also available to AWS customers, Claude Platform on AWS provides customers with Anthropic’s native development environment through AWS authentication and monitoring tools. Anthropic operates Claude Platform on AWS, processing customer data outside the AWS security boundary, while Bedrock keeps AWS as the data processor within its boundary.
The service is designed for development teams and enterprises without specific regional data residency requirements. Customers can continue to use AWS Identity and Access Management credentials and access controls, with billing consolidated through AWS. CloudTrail provides audit logging, and there is no need for a separate Anthropic account, vendor contract, or billing arrangement. Access is managed through existing AWS IAM policies and cloud controls.
Claude Platform on AWS includes access to Claude APIs, the Claude Console, and various native features such as Claude Managed Agents, code execution, web search, web fetch, prompt caching, citations, batch processing, and beta tools like the Files API, Skills, advisor strategy, and the MCP connector. New Claude API features and beta abilities will be available on the service simultaneously with their launch through the native API.
Users can upload and reference documents, deploy agents at scale, run Python code in API calls, retrieve information from the web, reduce costs and latency through prompt caching, and ground responses in source documents with citations. The service also offers access to the Claude Console for building and testing prompts, along with prompt improvement and generation tools.
Claude Platform on AWS provides access to Claude Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5, with new models becoming available as they are launched. This service operates differently from Claude on Amazon Bedrock, as it offers Anthropic’s native API and platform features, with Anthropic processing customer data outside AWS’s security boundary.
Several early users have praised the AWS integration of Claude Platform on AWS for simplifying access to Claude in various workflows. ReliaQuest highlighted its benefits for cybersecurity and engineering workflows, while OpenRouter emphasized the access to native Claude API features through existing AWS IAM credentials. Emergent noted the service’s canonical Anthropic API with AWS as the access layer, feature parity, and day-one access to new model abilities.
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