Amazon launches Claude apps gateway for AWS
On 9 July 2026 Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the launch of the Claude apps gateway, a self‑hosted control system that gives organisations centralized management over access, cost and policy for Claude Code and Claude Desktop applications. The gateway removes the need for separate cloud credentials for each developer and eliminates manual distribution of settings across development teams.
The service can be deployed through Amazon Bedrock, allowing data to remain within the AWS security boundary, or through the Claude Platform on AWS for a native Claude experience. It runs as a stateless container on Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS or Amazon EC2 and is backed by a PostgreSQL database that stores short‑lived sign‑in state and rate‑limit counters.
Authentication is handled via any OpenID Connect identity provider; after developers sign in through browser single‑sign‑on, the gateway issues short‑lived tokens. Core functions include identity management, policy enforcement, telemetry routing, inference request routing to either Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS, and spend caps. Organisations can define daily, weekly and monthly spend limits at the organisation, group or user level, with the gateway automatically blocking requests that exceed the caps.
When paired with Amazon Bedrock, inference requests are routed through Bedrock in the configured AWS Regions, preserving the same data handling and privacy controls as other Bedrock workloads. At startup the gateway reads a single YAML configuration file, and the Bedrock upstream uses the container’s IAM role, avoiding static credentials.
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