Anthropic on Bedrock, connectors

Anthropic’s Claude models are now generally available through Amazon Bedrock, as Amazon and Anthropic add more ways for companies to run Claude inside existing cloud and software stacks. (platform.claude.com, docs.aws.amazon.com) Amazon Bedrock is Amazon Web Services’ managed service for foundation models, and Anthropic’s Bedrock documentation says Claude can now be called there through the InvokeModel and Converse application programming interfaces. Anthropic’s Python software development kit also says it supports Bedrock integrations. (platform.claude.com, docs.aws.amazon.com, platform.claude.com) Amazon is also expanding the plumbing around agents, the software that can call outside tools instead of only generating text. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway is documented as a managed gateway that lets agents discover and invoke tools through the Model Context Protocol, a standard for exposing tools to models. (docs.aws.amazon.com, docs.aws.amazon.com) Amazon’s documentation says AgentCore Gateway now supports outbound authorization so the gateway can securely reach target systems on behalf of authenticated users, including Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management credentials and OAuth flows. Amazon also documents Model Context Protocol server targets as a supported target type. (docs.aws.amazon.com, docs.aws.amazon.com, docs.aws.amazon.com) That setup is aimed at a common enterprise problem: companies want a model to reach internal systems, but they do not want to hand the model broad, permanent access. Amazon’s gateway documentation describes the service as a unified entry point that handles authentication and routes calls to configured targets. (docs.aws.amazon.com, aws.amazon.com) Anthropic is building a parallel layer on the application side with Claude Connectors, which let Claude integrations reach outside services for specific tasks. On April 13, 2026, Aiwyn said it joined that ecosystem and made its tax engine available within Claude. (prnewswire.com, aiwyn.ai) Aiwyn said the connector exposes “Aiwyn Tax,” formerly Column Tax, for tax calculations inside Claude-based workflows. In a January 2026 release about the same product line, Aiwyn said the acquired Column Tax technology had processed more than 1 million returns in production and was being used for 2026 filing-season pilots. (prnewswire.com, prnewswire.com) Anthropic’s own product pages now list Connectors and a broader partner push alongside Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry as ways enterprises can deploy Claude. Anthropic said in March 2026 that it was putting $100 million into the Claude Partner Network. (anthropic.com, anthropic.com) The through line is that model access is becoming less of the selling point than the surrounding controls and integrations. Claude on Bedrock gives companies an Amazon route to the model, AgentCore Gateway adds access controls for tools, and Aiwyn’s connector shows how vendors are packaging narrow, verified systems for jobs like tax math. (platform.claude.com, docs.aws.amazon.com, prnewswire.com)