Introducing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 model in Amazon Bedrock

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic’s most intelligent Opus model for advancing performance across coding, long-running agents, and professional work. Claude Opus 4.7 is powered by Amazon Bedrock’s next generation inference engine, delivering enterprise-grade infrastructure for production workloads. Bedrock’s new inference engine has brand-new scheduling and scaling logic which dynamically allocates…

AWS Interconnect is now generally available, with a new option to simplify last-mile connectivity

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, a managed private connectivity service that connects your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) directly to VPCs on other cloud providers. We’re also introducing AWS Interconnect – last mile, a new capability that simplifies how you establish high-speed, private connections to AWS from your…

Launching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems

By Dustin Ward

I’m excited to announce Amazon S3 Files, a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). More than a decade ago, as an AWS trainer, I spent countless hours explaining the fundamental differences between object storage and file systems. My favorite analogy was comparing S3 objects…

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails supports cross-account safeguards with centralized control and management

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of cross-account safeguards in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, a new capability that enables centralized enforcement and management of safety controls across multiple AWS accounts within an organization. With this new capability, you can specify a guardrail in a new Amazon Bedrock policy within the management account of your organization that automatically enforces…