Anthropic's native platform went live inside AWS accounts, and Claude Code shipped two versions in under 30 hours.
Monday's headline is on the cloud side, not the model side. Claude Platform on AWS went generally available May 11, per an AWS announcement. To be precise about what this is: not Bedrock. Bedrock is Amazon's managed API layer for Claude. What launched is Anthropic's own platform, running on Anthropic infrastructure, accessible through an existing AWS account with IAM auth and AWS billing. No separate Anthropic contract required.
The bundle includes Messages API, Files API, Message Batches API, Managed Agents (beta), advisor tool (beta), web search, web fetch, MCP connector (beta), Agent Skills (beta), and code execution. Models available at launch: Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5. AWS is the first cloud provider to carry the native platform. Two SDK packages shipped the same day to wire up the AWS client: Python v0.101.0 and TypeScript aws-sdk-v0.3.0. Claude Code also shipped two versions in the window, including a major feature drop adding an experimental Agent View, a /goal command, and 60-plus bug fixes.
Anthropic's native Claude platform now accessible through AWS accounts, with IAM authentication and AWS billing. No separate Anthropic contract needed. Includes Messages API, Files API, Message Batches API, Managed Agents (beta), advisor tool (beta), web search, web fetch, MCP connector (beta), Agent Skills (beta), and code execution. Models at launch: Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5. Data and requests are processed outside the AWS security boundary, making it suited for teams without regional data residency requirements. AWS is the first cloud provider to carry the native platform, distinct from Amazon Bedrock.
Bug-fix release. Agent tool subagent_type matching now case- and separator-insensitive, so "Code Reviewer" resolves to code-reviewer. /goal no longer hangs silently when disableAllHooks or allowManagedHooksOnly is active. Settings hot-reload regression fixed for symlinked settings files. claude --bg "connection dropped mid-request" error fixed. Background service startup failures on enterprise endpoint security resolved. /loop scheduling redundant wakeups fixed. Windows event-loop stall from missing executable synchronous spawns fixed. Read tool validation fixed for whitespace-padded or +-prefixed offset strings. Emoji and astral-plane character handling fixed in fuzzy-match highlighting. Plugin warnings added when default component folders are silently ignored per plugin.json config.
claude update or reinstall.Major feature release. Agent View (Research Preview): claude agents shows every session, running, blocked, or done, in a single list. /goal command sets a completion condition and keeps Claude working across turns until it is met, with live elapsed time, turn count, and token usage displayed. /scroll-speed command tunes mouse wheel scroll speed with live preview. claude plugin details <name> shows component inventory and projected per-session token cost.
Hook exec-form args: string[] now spawns directly without a shell. PostToolUse hooks gain continueOnBlock option. MCP stdio servers receive CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR in their environment; plugin configs can reference ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}. Compaction preserves sensitive user instructions. /mcp Reconnect picks up .mcp.json edits without a restart. /context all shows per-skill token estimates accounting for the model's tokenizer. 60-plus additional bug fixes, including deadlock resolution with expired credentials and memory growth fixes.
claude update or reinstall. Run claude agents to open Agent View. Use /goal <condition> in any session to set an autonomous completion target.Adds AWS client for Claude Platform on AWS. Bug fix: missing f-string prefix in file type error message. Example scripts updated to claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929; shebang updated from poetry to uv.
pip install --upgrade anthropic==0.101.0. Import the AWS client from the anthropic.aws namespace.Adds AWS client for Claude Platform on AWS. Release configuration updated to exclude subpackages (aws-sdk, vertex-sdk, bedrock-sdk, foundry-sdk) from root changelog, preventing subpackage-only changes from triggering root version bumps.
npm install @anthropic-ai/sdk@0.95.2New dedicated AWS SDK subpackage for Claude Platform on AWS. Companion to sdk-v0.95.2; the AWS client ships as its own versioned package, separate from the core SDK.
npm install @anthropic-ai/aws-sdk@0.3.0anthropic.com/news, all docs.anthropic.com release notes pages, and alignment.anthropic.com returned HTTP 403 at sweep time. API, Apps, and System Prompt changelogs could not be confirmed directly. All items above sourced from GitHub, AWS, and web search. Nothing inferred or fabricated.
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