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Amazon Announces Claude Apps Gateway on AWS for Centralized AI Management
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Amazon has launched the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a new system designed to give organizations centralized control over access, costs, and policies for Claude AI applications. The tool aims to streamline developer access and enhance security.
Amazon announced on Wednesday the launch of the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control system for organizations. The gateway provides a centralized method for managing access, cost, and policy related to Claude Code and Claude Desktop applications, aiming to simplify enterprise AI administration.
The new system is designed to eliminate the need for organizations to issue separate cloud credentials to each developer or manually distribute configuration settings across teams. According to the announcement, the gateway runs as a stateless container on various Amazon services, including Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, or Amazon EC2, and is backed by a PostgreSQL database for temporary sign-in and rate-limiting data.
The gateway can be deployed through Amazon Bedrock, which keeps data within an organization's AWS security boundary, or via the Claude Platform on AWS. It integrates with any OpenID Connect identity provider, enabling a browser-based single sign-on (SSO) process for developers. After authentication, the system issues short-lived tokens to manage identity, enforce policies, and route requests.
AdA key feature is the ability for organizations to implement spending controls by setting daily, weekly, or monthly caps at the organization, group, or individual user level. The gateway will automatically block requests once these limits are exceeded. When used with Amazon Bedrock, inference requests are processed with the same data handling and privacy controls as other Bedrock workloads.