I hope Azure is next. I would love to ask my employer to finally get this...
Claude Platform on AWS
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Re: Claude Platform on AWS
#92Re: Claude Platform on AWS
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always wondered how this plays out in practice. I might certify that I have signing authority but I most certainly do not. What happens in the US (in Delaware?) when there's a dispute?
We had a customer try to back out of a contract by claiming the person signing didn't have authority. It didn't work because the person's manager (who has authority) was included in all of the communication. Legally it didn't matter whether the signer had authority because the way the signer's company behaved during the signing process implied that the signer had authority. E.g. If the CTO at a company tells a vendor…
"Practice is policy"
Re: Claude Platform on AWS
#94A little startup I'm part of is on the AWS startup program giving us £10k in AWA credits so the more we can "proxy" through AWS the better. We already heavily rely on anthropic models via Bedrock but I'll be interested to see if the tok/s throughout is better on this new service (or worse). To be honest though after a quick skim, I'm unclear what other advantages this might offer over Bedrock where we can already acc…
Are you sure those credits apply to this usage. Many forms of AWS credits dont cover usage of Claude models on Amazon Bedrock for instance, as all of them are billed as third party / marketplace consumption.
Builder credits apply to every AWS service I've tried.
Re: Claude Platform on AWS
#95I dont think this is about billing as other comments mentioned. AWS bedrock already does that. I think AWS proposes to host actual agents, meaning you can customize their MCP servers, have them fetch and issue arbitrary requests, etc. Essentially a hosted minimal harness. This is very much needed, as a form of "hosted claude code", allowing you to actually have the agent code, push, test from e.g. your phone.
Bedrock provides model inference as well as a few hosted things like agent core. This certainly provides more than bedrock, but it implies inference while fronted by aws policy and management will be farmed out to spacex and other providers. Anthropic already announced managed agents prior to this.
I would note that I don’t think I would lean towards Anthropic (operating with one 9 currently) over aws (operating with an implied 5 9’s within a region and arbitrary 9’s by composing across regions). Anthropic makes good models. They’ve yet to prove they make good operations.
Re: Claude Platform on AWS
#96> 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…
Nah that's not what's happening here. This service is offered under AWS Marketplace. The only argument is actually probably a shared billing console, and that's where it ends. Won't matter for small companies, small fish, but the for the big pond this means new contracts to check, lawyers and so on. So not really a "revolution" happening. News for startups, yes, but not so much for the big corps or gov.
Re: Claude Platform on AWS
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always wondered how this plays out in practice. I might certify that I have signing authority but I most certainly do not. What happens in the US (in Delaware?) when there's a dispute?
We had a customer try to back out of a contract by claiming the person signing didn't have authority. It didn't work because the person's manager (who has authority) was included in all of the communication. Legally it didn't matter whether the signer had authority because the way the signer's company behaved during the signing process implied that the signer had authority. E.g. If the CTO at a company tells a vendor…
Well, you see, I had my cat click "submit", so we don't have to pay the bill!
Re: Claude Platform on AWS
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always wondered how this plays out in practice. I might certify that I have signing authority but I most certainly do not. What happens in the US (in Delaware?) when there's a dispute?
We had a customer try to back out of a contract by claiming the person signing didn't have authority. It didn't work because the person's manager (who has authority) was included in all of the communication. Legally it didn't matter whether the signer had authority because the way the signer's company behaved during the signing process implied that the signer had authority. E.g. If the CTO at a company tells a vendor…
Generally any W-2 has authority to enter into contracts, strictly from the vendor’s POV. As a vendor you don’t need to get your customer’s publicly listed officer or director to sign off on contracts. The W-2 can also be fired for entering their employer into the contract, but that's not (directly) the vendor's problem.
Once a vendor has entered into a contract, that could change - e.g. "any change orders must be approved by $EMPLOYEE_SET".
It's absolutely wild that every W-2 employee can expose their employer to essentially unlimited liability, but AFAIK, that's the truth.
Re: Claude Platform on AWS
#99A little startup I'm part of is on the AWS startup program giving us £10k in AWA credits so the more we can "proxy" through AWS the better. We already heavily rely on anthropic models via Bedrock but I'll be interested to see if the tok/s throughout is better on this new service (or worse). To be honest though after a quick skim, I'm unclear what other advantages this might offer over Bedrock where we can already acc…
Are you sure those credits apply to this usage. Many forms of AWS credits dont cover usage of Claude models on Amazon Bedrock for instance, as all of them are billed as third party / marketplace consumption.
It’s included for Claude models on Bedrock.
Initially that wasn’t the case, until April 2024.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/aws-activate-credits-n...