Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWS

AWS Introduces Claude Opus 4.8

AWS 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:

• Performs longer autonomous runs
• Deeper reasoning and consistency for production work
• Reads codebases like an engineer, plans before editing, and holds context across long sessions
• Better at finding paths around obstacles, recovering from errors, and knowing when to ask for help
• Synthesizes across long documents and complex sources, self-checks output, and delivers structured deliverables

Access Methods

Customers can access Claude Opus 4.8 via:

• Amazon Bedrock: Keeps data within AWS infrastructure, provides access through a unified service with AWS-managed features like Guardrails, Knowledge Bases, and regional data residency.
• Claude Platform on AWS: Direct access to Anthropic's native platform experience and capabilities via the AWS Console, unified with AWS billing and authentication.

What to do

• Explore Amazon Bedrock documentation for more details.
• Check regional availability for Bedrock.
• Get started with Claude Platform on AWS documentation.

Source: AWS release notes

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