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Re: Claude Platform on AWS

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Post by 8note »

SilverElfin wrote: post #19

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?

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

Re: Claude Platform on AWS

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Post by ZeroCool2u »

LPisGood wrote: post #10
wafisher wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

So then they could use Bedrock, no?

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

Re: Claude Platform on AWS

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Post by hibikir »

abhik24 wrote: post #30

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

There's companies out there with mid 8, possibly low 9 figure monthly AWS bills. In that world, letting people pay through said AWS pipeline gets rid of so much red tape. Supporting Bedrock was already a big winner vs OpenAI in the race for big enterprise, and Anthropic desperately wants to find any way to be sticky, as opposed to risking companies flipping a switch and telling entire departments to switch to any future codex + GPT on Bedrock plans. The harder it is for you to migrate, the better for Anthropic.

Re: Claude Platform on AWS

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Post by zmmmmm »

xyzzy123 wrote: post #18
ldoughty wrote: post #4

> 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

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 seve…

yes it sounds like a hack to get access to untracked spend in corporate accounts.

In my org, I have to file a form for reimbursement if I bought a pencil for $0.25 but in AWS? spend varies by +/- $5k per month and nobody even questions it. This will definitely make it trivially easy for me to build on Anthropic's services without even telling anybody vs the hoops I would have to jump to get it paid for another way.

Re: Claude Platform on AWS

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Post by dilyevsky »

foolfoolz wrote: post #29
ldoughty wrote: post #4

> 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

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

The credits you get from aws in their startup program are typically not spendable on marketplace. At least what we got through YC we could not spend there. Not sure how claude is integrating, maybe it’s different here

Re: Claude Platform on AWS

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Post by zmmmmm »

ldoughty wrote: post #4

> 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

Yeah i think this could backfire. At the moment they have such a clear messsage with Bedrock about data governance. You now have to ask a question and probalby get approval where previously there was no question and hence no barriers.

Re: Claude Platform on AWS

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Post by notaharvardmba »

nijave wrote: post #6
notaharvardmba wrote: post #5

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

I tried that with Bedrock but Claude models are billed through Marketplace and generate a completely separate invoice. Suspect this is probably the same.

Need to just pay all your other vendors through marketplace too!

Re: Claude Platform on AWS

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Post by wafflerewire »

xyzzy123 wrote: post #18
ldoughty wrote: post #4

> 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

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 seve…

This is my day job. I couldn't get access to the Claude Platform even with a business goal justification because of the management overhead while having Anthropic model access with Bedrock.

Through AWS, assuming the underlying data governance is reasonable, this will be a much easier pill to swallow.

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