Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the availability of Claude Opus 5, Anthropic's most advanced Opus model, on Amazon Bedrock and the Claude Platform on AWS. This fifth-generation model delivers significant improvements in agentic coding, knowledge work, visual understanding, and long-running tasks, matching the intelligence of Claude Fable 5 in many domains at Opus-tier pricing.
Key Capabilities
Claude Opus 5 excels in coding, navigating codebases like an experienced engineer and writing production-quality code. It powers dependable long-running agents that can work for hours, recovering from errors and adapting strategies. For professional work, it offers deeper reasoning on long documents and higher accuracy in complex analysis, particularly benefiting document-heavy enterprise tasks.
Enterprise Features
On Amazon Bedrock, Claude Opus 5 benefits from zero data retention (ZDR) by default, ensuring top-tier intelligence without compromising data governance. It is powered by Bedrock's next-generation inference engine, allowing integration within existing AWS environments with enterprise security and regional data residency. The Claude Platform on AWS also supports ZDR on request and provides a native Anthropic experience through the AWS Console.
Use Cases
The model is well-suited for financial services, agent and workflow automation, and productivity tasks. It handles compliance-sensitive work, pushes back on flawed instructions, and breaks complex jobs into sub-agents requiring less oversight. Claude Opus 5 also improves on Opus 4.8's cyber capabilities, though in higher-risk areas it may fall back to Opus 4.8 with user notification.
Getting Started
Users can access Claude Opus 5 via the Amazon Bedrock console, programmatically through the Anthropic Messages API, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. It supports tool addition and removal mid-conversation via content blocks. The model is available in regions including US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Stockholm), with additional regions on the Claude Platform.