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Claude Platform on AWS

> The Claude Platform on AWS is a first of its kind offering for Anthropic, giving you all native Claude API features from day one. Anthropic operates the service and data is processed outside the AWS boundary.

So it's not... On AWS... ?

This statement sounds.... Backwards?

I get they have another option that is in AWS, but this continues the cryptic naming problem AWS already is overloaded with

an hour agoldoughty

I think the idea is that you can launder your team or product AI spend through your AWS account. This matters in Enterprise. It looks like the difference with Bedrock is that you access more "Claude platform" stuff than just the model.

More charitably, this lets an org heavy on AWS use their existing IAM / SSO / Finops processes to manage Claude stuff, this is genuinely helpful when otherwise you have to go thru several teams and build out whole new rails to adopt.

an hour agoxyzzy123

there’s a top level feature in aws for investors to give out credits of like $120k of AWS spend during funding rounds. there’s min commits of spend for cheaper prices (RI). funneling costs and invoicing though aws has real benefits. aws spend monitoring is literally a sub industry with billion dollar players

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an hour ago

A little startup I'm part of is on the AWS startup program giving us £10k in AWA credits so the more we can "proxy" through AWS the better.

We already heavily rely on anthropic models via Bedrock but I'll be interested to see if the tok/s throughout is better on this new service (or worse).

To be honest though after a quick skim, I'm unclear what other advantages this might offer over Bedrock where we can already access the models including vision etc. Will it be worth refactoring our services, all our terraform etc? Unclear at this stage, especially since Bedrock allows us to use more than just the anthropic models if needed

26 minutes agoceuk

> The Claude Platform on AWS is a first of its kind offering for Anthropic, giving you all native Claude API features from day one. Anthropic operates the service and data is processed outside the AWS boundary. This is a good option for companies that want the full Claude Platform experience.

Does seem to be mostly about billing like others said. But it might mean cloudformation / terraform providers for claude-platform, guess that's nice.

It might make strict networking/firewall things slightly easier somehow. But for everyone who thinks the new offering is about jurisdictional matters, it's not, that's the old one:

> Claude on Amazon Bedrock keeps AWS as the data processor and operates within the AWS boundary. This is a good fit for companies that have strict regional data residency requirements or need their data processed exclusively within AWS's infrastructure.

34 minutes agorobot-wrangler

How's this work? Like if I want to self host claude on my gpu's? Do I just pay a one time lease?

14 minutes agonadermx

So confusing. Are they with AWS for the checkout? Because none of sentences make sense to me

13 minutes agoabhik24

So claude.bedrock is where you run if you want complete data privacy, this - claude.aws - is just claude on/in AWS - is that the right core difference?

an hour agoniwtsol

So is this effectively a way for aws customers to more easily access Claude code?

Claude itself was almost from the very beginning available in bedrock.

2 hours agowhatever1

Might be for enterprise customers (with slow procurement departments) who already have AWS accounts but not Anthropic ones.

an hour agowafisher

So then they could use Bedrock, no?

an hour agoLPisGood

Bedrock is both more expensive, less feature complete, and less reliable in terms of raw volume of 500 errors.

7 minutes agoZeroCool2u

A lot of tools, community and Anthropic’s, have zero support for Bedrock.

Anthropic’s offerings for Bedrock lag behind their main platform by months, maybe up to a year or more.

29 minutes agoharrall

Interesting timing - been building with Claude API locally and hit AWS infra questions.

Anyone know if this solves cross-region failover? Main pain point I have is US vs EU latency differences when running agents in parallel. Local orchestration helps but cloud fallback would be useful.

an hour agocavemanDigAI

So what's the good point?

an hour agonryoo

Hide some of your ballooning AI spend behind your ballooning AWS bill

an hour agoJabrov

But then how would I be able to brag about how much I'm doing the AI?

20 minutes agododu_

Couldn’t you already do that with Claude via AWS?

43 minutes agoSilverElfin

But you couldn't do it with the Claude app or the recently announced Claude Managed Agents I think.

30 minutes agorohansood15

It allows one to conveniently hide your claude expense in your big ass AWS bill.

an hour agonotaharvardmba

I tried that with Bedrock but Claude models are billed through Marketplace and generate a completely separate invoice.

Suspect this is probably the same.

an hour agonijave

Nice, might give managed agents a try now.

2 hours agobreckenedge

How to obscure your wasteful LLM usage behind your already massive AWS expenditure with this one tip.

an hour agoxyst

Might be good?

an hour agogeedelgado

Umm, why could this not just be Claude on AWS marketplace?

Seems intentionally deceitful.

40 minutes agorohansood15

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16 minutes agoagdexai

Is this a bunch of AI coded slop? I feel like everyone should be skeptical of how quickly Anthropic is throwing random things out there. Why would anyone use this instead of using Claude directly on AWS?

44 minutes agoSilverElfin

anthropic and aws have been pretty close from the start

i think the more interesting part is that anthropic is to aws what target was to amazon

this feels like there's a coming 5-10 year change from aws acting as a cloud, to being a cloud entrypoint/marketplace, separately from the cloud marketplace they already have as cfn snippets you can deploy

13 minutes ago8note

this is a bad bad idea people, i highly recommend not falling for this one. You dont wanna see your production database get deleted by mistake or spawn 464135453452 ec2 instances due to a mistake in autoscaling configuration

an hour agovivzkestrel

I think you might have misunderstood the headline and maybe not read the article, because that's not really relevant to what's being announced here