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Claude Platform on AWS
Access the full Claude API through your AWS account
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Access the full Claude API through your AWS account
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Claude Platform on AWS lets AWS customers call Anthropic's full API, including Managed Agents, web search, and code execution, via IAM auth and consolidated billing. For dev teams building on AWS without a separate Anthropic account.
AWS customers building with Claude no longer need a separate Anthropic account, API key, or billing relationship.
What it is: Claude Platform on AWS is Anthropic's native API and developer console, accessed directly through an existing AWS account with IAM authentication, CloudTrail audit logging, and consolidated billing.
AWS teams have historically faced a friction point when adopting Claude at scale. Accessing the native Claude Platform required a separate Anthropic account, separate API keys, and a billing relationship outside AWS. For organizations with established procurement, compliance, and cost management workflows tied to AWS, that's non-trivial overhead. Claude Platform on AWS collapses that to zero: same IAM credentials, same invoice, same audit trail they already use.
What makes it different: The distinction worth noting is that this is not Claude via Amazon Bedrock, where AWS is the data processor. This is the native Anthropic platform, operated by Anthropic, surfaced inside AWS. That means every new Claude API feature and beta ships to AWS customers on the same day it goes live on the native API. No lag, no subset of features.
Key features:
AWS IAM authentication, no separate API keys
Usage billed through AWS Marketplace on a consumption basis
Activity captured in AWS CloudTrail for audit and monitoring
Claude Managed Agents (beta) for deploying agents at scale
Full toolset: web search, web fetch, code execution, files API, MCP connector, Agent Skills, advisor strategy
Claude Console access for prompt development and evaluation
Available across 14+ regions globally
Benefits:
Zero additional credentials or contracts for teams already on AWS
AI spend tracked and managed alongside existing AWS services
Compliance and governance requirements addressed through existing AWS tooling
Same-day access to new Claude features as they ship
Who it's for: Engineering teams and ML practitioners at AWS-native organizations who want to build on Anthropic's full Claude API without managing a separate vendor relationship.
My read is that this matters most not for developers experimenting with Claude individually, but for the layer above them: the platform teams and procurement leads who control what tooling gets approved at scale. Collapsing Claude into the existing AWS account removes the last procurement blocker for a lot of enterprise builds.