Anthropic's Claude Platform Now Generally Available on AWS: what changed

Anthropic has made Claude Platform generally available on AWS, allowing customers to access the native Claude experience directly from their AWS accounts without separate credentials, contracts, or billing relationships. That immediate integration simplifies procurement and centralized management for teams that already operate inside AWS and want the native Claude APIs and console experience under their existing account controls.

Claude Platform on AWS exposes the same APIs, features, and console experience available directly from Anthropic. Capabilities called out at launch include the Messages API, Claude Managed Agents (beta), the advisor tool (beta), web search and web fetch, the MCP connector (beta), Agent Skills (beta), code execution, and the files API (beta). Full capability details are available in the Claude Platform documentation. Access and operational integration use familiar AWS primitives: authentication via AWS IAM credentials, consumption — based billing through AWS Marketplace, and audit logging through AWS CloudTrail. Those integrations let teams manage AI usage, spending, and auditing alongside their existing AWS services and controls rather than introducing separate management planes.

Anthropic operates Claude Platform on AWS and processes requests and data outside the AWS security boundary. That operational model is described as suitable for teams without strict regional data residency requirements and is positioned to complement Claude models available on Amazon Bedrock, letting builders choose the deployment approach that best fits their compliance and architecture needs.

Getting started requires activation through AWS Marketplace and three setup steps: create a workspace, authenticate, and call the API. A workspace separates projects, environments, or teams while providing a central IAM resource and billing scope; access is controlled via IAM policies using workspace ARNs. The AWS Console experience includes a Claude Platform on AWS Console plus a Claude Console for workspace management.

Claude Platform on AWS supports two authentication methods: IAM with AWS Signature Version 4 and API keys. Anthropic recommends temporary IAM credentials for setups that need stronger security and API keys for exploration. Example environment variables shown in the launch include ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL set to a regional endpoint such as https://aws-external-anthropic..api.aws, and ANTHROPIC_WORKSPACE_ID.

Anthropic provides Client SDKs and Getting Started notebooks so teams can make an initial API call quickly. Sample usage in the announcement shows setting a default header with the workspace ID, calling model "claude — sonnet-4-6" with max_tokens=1024, and sending a simple messages payload. For builders, the offering promises centralized billing, CloudTrail auditing, workspace — level access control, and the flexibility to choose native Claude on AWS or Claude models on Bedrock depending on residency and operational requirements.