Anthropic's Claude Platform Goes Generally Available Inside AWS Accounts

Anthropic and Amazon Web Services on Monday flipped the switch on Claude Platform on AWS, moving the offering from limited preview to general availability and making AWS the first cloud provider to host Anthropic's complete first-party developer surface inside a customer's own cloud account. The launch hands AWS customers the same APIs, console and beta features that previously required a separate Anthropic contract, while leaving identity, audit and billing inside the existing AWS perimeter.

The feature set going generally available is substantially deeper than what AWS already exposes through Amazon Bedrock. Customers using Claude Platform on AWS get the Claude API and Claude Console, plus a slate of capabilities that includes Claude Managed Agents in beta, the advisor strategy preview, web search, web fetch, code execution, Skills, the MCP connector, the Files API, prompt caching, citations and batch processing. New Anthropic releases will hit the AWS-hosted surface on the same day they reach Anthropic's direct customers, a notable change from the multi-week lag that has typically separated the two.

Authentication and governance stay AWS-native. Customers continue to use existing IAM credentials and access controls; usage flows into consolidated AWS billing; and CloudTrail audit logs capture the full Claude Platform interaction history for security teams. That packaging is aimed squarely at regulated enterprises that have been willing to experiment with Claude inside Bedrock but reluctant to stand up a parallel vendor relationship for procurement, identity and compliance reasons.

The service is launching in 17 regions across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, including US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), São Paulo, Dublin, London, Frankfurt, Milan, Zurich, Paris, Stockholm, Tokyo, Seoul, Jakarta, Sydney and Melbourne. The expansion is the latest signal that Anthropic's commercial strategy is now openly multi-cloud — even as the company also recently committed $200 billion to Google Cloud and TPU capacity — and that AWS, despite its own bets on internal models, is comfortable putting a direct competitor's developer platform front-and-center for its enterprise customers.