AWS Launches Claude Platform, Giving Enterprises Native Anthropic Access

A First-of-Its-Kind Cloud Integration

Amazon Web Services on Monday announced the general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, marking the first time a major cloud provider has offered Anthropic's native platform experience directly through customer AWS accounts. Enterprise developers now have access to Anthropic's full API suite, including Claude Managed Agents, web search, MCP connectors, and code execution, all authenticated through existing AWS IAM credentials with billing consolidated through AWS.

How It Differs From Bedrock

Unlike Claude on Amazon Bedrock, which processes data within the AWS security boundary, Claude Platform on AWS is operated by Anthropic itself, with customer data handled outside AWS infrastructure. The tradeoff is significant: enterprises gain same-day access to every new Anthropic feature as it ships on the native Claude API, while using familiar AWS access controls and CloudTrail audit logging. The service eliminates the need for separate Anthropic accounts, API keys, or billing relationships, making it particularly attractive for development teams without strict regional data residency requirements.

A $100 Billion Compute Commitment

The general availability follows an expanded partnership announced on 20 April, in which Amazon committed up to $25 billion in new investment in Anthropic, on top of $8 billion previously invested. In return, Anthropic pledged to spend more than $100 billion on AWS technologies over the next decade. The deal covers Trainium2 through Trainium4 custom AI chips and up to five gigawatts of training and inference capacity. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy praised Anthropic's deployment of Trainium chips as evidence of the advancements achieved together in custom silicon.

Secondary Share Crackdown Sparks Legal Debate

The launch coincided with a more contentious move from Anthropic: the company declared all unauthorised secondary trades of its stock void, invalidating transactions on platforms like Forge Global and Hiive, where its implied valuation had climbed to roughly $1 trillion, surpassing OpenAI's secondary-market valuation. Legal experts flagged the use of 'void' rather than 'voidable' as the most aggressive legal posture available under Delaware corporate law, potentially unwinding entire chains of secondary transactions. Delaware courts are expected to be the first to test the enforceability of the policy, with observers watching whether other trillion-dollar private firms follow suit.