As part of Anthropic’s and AWS’s expanded collaboration, which the two companies announced in April, Anthropic said it would bring Claude Platform, its set of developer tools and APIs, to AWS. Only a few weeks later, AWS on Monday announced the general availability of the Claude Platform on AWS.
This will now give developers access to the same APIs and features that were previously available only through Anthropic, directly on AWS using their AWS credentials. It also makes AWS the first cloud provider to offer access to the native Claude Platform experience.
The supported experiences include the Messages API, Claude Managed Agents (beta), advisor tool (beta), web search and web fetch, MCP connector (beta), Agent Skills (beta), code execution, and the files API (beta).
What’s interesting here is that the actual underlying Claude Platform is still operated by Anthropic and AWS specifically notes that the requests and data will be processed “outside the AWS security boundary.”
As AWS writes in its announcement, “this makes it well-suited for teams without specific regional data residency requirements, and complements Claude models on Amazon Bedrock, so you can access Claude through the approach that fits your needs.” Or, in other terms: if you have data residency requirements, this isn’t the Claude Platform you were looking for.
This is different, by the way, from using Claude on Amazon Bedrock. There, all data remains within the AWS boundary when you access the Claude models through AWS.
Pricing on AWS is the same as for using Claude Platform through Anthropic.
When Anthropic and AWS first announced their collaboration, Anthropic specifically noted that the Claude Platform on AWS will allow organizations to use Claude “while meeting their existing governance and compliance requirements.”
As with other AWS services, though, authentication and billing will be handled by AWS. One additional feature Claude Platform users gain on AWS is built-in AWS CloudTrail support for monitoring and auditing AI usage.
The overall partnership deal, like other deals Anthropic recently struck, will provide some relief from its recent capacity issues. Anthropic promises to buy more than $100 billion in AWS compute capacity in the next 10 years, with access to AWS’s Trainium chips and up to 5GW of capacity.
While this wasn’t part of the deal, Amazon’s own developers also recently got access to Claude Code — in addition to AWS’s own Kiro coding tool.
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