Anthropic's Claude Platform Launches on AWS with Full API Feature Parity and Native IAM Integration
Summary
Anthropic's Claude Platform is now live on AWS, offering full API feature parity, native IAM authentication, CloudTrail logging, and unified billing, giving developers powerful AI tools while a separate Amazon Bedrock option keeps data within AWS infrastructure for stricter compliance needs.
Key Points
- The Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available, giving AWS customers full access to native Claude API features with AWS IAM authentication, CloudTrail audit logging, and unified AWS billing that retires against existing commitments.
- The platform includes powerful tools such as Claude Managed Agents, web search, code execution, Files API, Skills, MCP connector, prompt caching, and more, with new features shipping on the same day they launch on the native Claude API.
- Two distinct paths exist for AWS developers: Claude Platform on AWS, operated by Anthropic with full feature parity but data processed outside the AWS boundary, and Claude on Amazon Bedrock, which keeps data processing within AWS infrastructure for stricter regional compliance needs.