The Information: customers prefer Claude on AWS for coding

Enterprise customers on Amazon Web Services are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude for coding tasks over OpenAI, according to a new report from The Information. (theinformation.com) That preference sits on top of AWS’s own distribution: Amazon says more than 100,000 customers already run Anthropic Claude models on AWS, and last week it expanded its Anthropic deal with a new $5 billion investment plus up to $20 billion more. (aboutamazon.com) (cnbc.com) For coding teams, the appeal is not just the model. Anthropic and AWS now let companies run Claude Code through Amazon Bedrock, with AWS identity controls, centralized billing, and deployment patterns aimed at large organizations. (code.claude.com) (aws.amazon.com) AWS has been sharpening that setup for software work. Its Bedrock guidance for Claude Code highlights single sign-on, audit trails, usage monitoring, and policy controls, while AWS blog posts pitch prompt caching as a way to cut latency and input-token costs on large codebases. (github.com) (aws.amazon.com) Anthropic has also kept marketing Claude as a coding-first model family. Its Claude in Amazon Bedrock page lists code generation as a core enterprise use case, and Anthropic’s Opus 4.7 launch said the model posted triple the resolved production tasks of Opus 4.6 on Rakuten-SWE-Bench. (aws.amazon.com) (anthropic.com) The AWS angle matters because many large companies want coding assistants to live inside the same security and procurement stack as the rest of their cloud tools. Bedrock lets them buy Anthropic models through one AWS contract instead of adding a separate vendor path. (code.claude.com) (aws.amazon.com) Amazon and Anthropic have been tightening that relationship for more than a year. Anthropic said in November 2024 that AWS became its primary cloud and training partner, and Amazon’s latest announcement extends that arrangement deeper into chips, infrastructure, and enterprise distribution. (anthropic.com) (aboutamazon.com) That leaves OpenAI competing not only on model quality, but on where enterprise developers already work. On AWS, Claude is increasingly being sold as both the coding model and the easier procurement choice. (theinformation.com) (code.claude.com)