Anthropic just made Claude available through AWS Marketplace
Claude's API is now inside AWS Marketplace. That means billing through your AWS account, usage tied to AWS credits, and regional deployment closer to your data.
Anthropic announced Claude Platform on AWS this week. This is not AWS Bedrock, where you call Claude through Amazon’s abstraction layer. This is Claude’s actual API, sold directly through AWS Marketplace. The interesting bit is billing. If you are already on AWS, you do not need a separate Anthropic account or a separate invoice. Usage shows up on your AWS bill. If you have credits or enterprise discount agreements with AWS, Claude usage counts against those. That removes friction for teams that need approval to spin up new vendor accounts. Regional deployment matters for latency-sensitive applications. You can now deploy Claude in regions where your data already lives. If you are in ap-southeast-2 running real-time fraud detection, the model inference happens in ap-southeast-2. No cross-region calls. No data residency headaches. The API itself is unchanged. Same endpoints, same rate limits, same model versions. You authenticate through AWS IAM instead of Anthropic’s API keys. That means you can use existing AWS permission policies to control who can call Claude and how much they can spend. This matters most for enterprises already locked into AWS. Adding a new vendor requires procurement paperwork, security reviews, separate billing reconciliation. Buying Claude through Marketplace skips all of that. It is the same friction reduction that made SageMaker appealing even when the models were available elsewhere. One limitation: this is US-only at launch. Anthropic says more regions are coming. If you are deploying in Europe or Asia-Pacific, you still need to use the standard Claude API or Bedrock.
Source: Claude Platform on AWS