Key takeaways

  • Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's most advanced Opus model for coding and knowledge work.
  • The model powers agents that can run for hours with minimal oversight.
  • Opus 5 is available with zero data retention on AWS.
On July 24, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, the first Opus model in the fifth generation. According to Anthropic, Opus 5 matches top-tier intelligence benchmarks at Opus-tier pricing, with advances in agentic coding, knowledge work, visual understanding, and multi-step agents.
AWS and Anthropic logos with announcement that Claude Fable 5 is now available on AWS

Claude Fable 5 from Anthropic now available on AWS

Anthropic's 5th-generation AI model makes Mythos-level capabilities available to all customers and shows exceptional performance in coding, knowledge work, and vision—now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS.

What's new in Claude Opus 5

  • Agentic coding—understands and navigates codebases like an experienced engineer, and writes production-quality code while pivoting and adapting its strategy as it works.
  • Long-running tasks—works dependently for hours, finding paths around obstacles, recovering from errors, and effectively reaching objectives.
  • Knowledge work—offers deeper reasoning on long documents and higher accuracy with measurably stronger retrieval and analysis than Claude Opus 4.8.
  • Agent and workflow automation—breaks complex jobs into sub-agents requiring less oversight.

Getting started

You can get started with Claude Opus 5 in the Amazon Bedrock console. Access is also available through Claude Platform on AWS with unified AWS billing and authentication.
Visit Anthropic's Claude in Amazon Bedrock product page for more detailed information on all Claude models available on AWS.

Dive deeper

Visit Anthropic’s Claude in Amazon Bedrock product page for more detailed information on Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Opus 4.1, and Claude Sonnet 4.
July 24, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 5.
June 30, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Sonnet 5.
June 9, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Fable 5.
May 28, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 4.8.
February 17, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Sonnet 4.6.
February 5, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 4.6.
November 24, 2025: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 4.5.
October 15, 2025: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Haiku 4.5.
September 29, 2025: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Sonnet 4.5.
August 5, 2025: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 4.1.

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