Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS GovCloud (US) Release Notes

AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 4.8 -- Anthropic's most capable generally available model to date -- delivering meaningful advances across agentic coding, professional knowledge work, and long-running autonomous tasks for developers and enterprises building production AI applications.

Key improvements include:

• Longer autonomous runs: Enhanced ability to perform tasks over extended periods.
• Deeper reasoning: Improved problem-solving capabilities.
• Consistency: More reliable performance for production use.
• Coding: Reads codebases like an engineer, plans before editing, and maintains context across long sessions.
• Agentic tasks: Better at finding paths around obstacles, recovering from errors, and knowing when to ask for help.
• Knowledge work: Better synthesis across long documents, self-checks output, and delivers structured deliverables.

Amazon Bedrock keeps your data within AWS infrastructure and provides access to Claude Opus 4.8 through a unified service with AWS-managed features like Guardrails, Knowledge Bases, and regional data residency.

What to do

• Explore Amazon Bedrock documentation for more details.
• Check regional availability for AWS GovCloud (US).

Source: AWS release notes

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