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02/05/2026 | News release | Distributed by Public on 02/05/2026 12:55

Claude Opus 4.6 model from Anthropic available in Amazon Bedrock

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.

Key takeaways

  • Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's most powerful model yet, excelling at autonomous coding, enterprise agents, and professional work.
  • The model transforms multi-day development projects into hours-long tasks and enables teams to delegate entire complex workflows with less oversight.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 enables processing of extensive documents and large-scale codebases and is ideal for use cases that require sophisticated reasoning and multi-step orchestration, supporting both 200K and 1M context tokens (preview).
Amazon Web Services (AWS)has announced the availability of Claude Opus 4.6, Anthropic's most powerful AI model yet, in Amazon Bedrock. Claude Opus 4.6 is the latest version of Anthropic's most intelligent model, setting new standards across complex coding projects and multi-step enterprise workflows.
The addition of Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock enhances customers' AI choices with increasingly advanced models, simplifying how customers build better, more transformative applications with enterprise-grade security and responsible AI controls.

Why you should care

Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's most powerful model yet for coding and professional work. It's best for demanding use cases such as long-horizon, multi-step projects where deep reasoning, precision, and reliability are required. For coding specifically, it compresses multi-day projects into hours, handling the full lifecycle from gathering requirements to implementation and maintenance so senior engineers can delegate complex work with confidence and less oversight.

Straight from the source: Anthropic on Claude

"Claude models consistently set new standards in coding, advanced reasoning, and multi-step workflows while understanding full business contexts and delivering precise results," Kate Jensen, head of Growth and Revenue of Anthropic, said. "The real breakthrough is freeing your talent for strategic work while Claude handles the heavy lifting."

The bigger story

Claude Opus 4.6 represents a significant leap forward in agentic AI capabilities, transforming how businesses can deploy AI for both specialized complex tasks and everyday high-volume operations. Rather than simply generating content, Claude Opus 4.6 models function more like expert virtual collaborators-maintaining focus across complex tasks, preserving relevant context, and delivering complete solutions without constant guidance. This capability transforms how organizations can tackle challenges from developing software systems to creating comprehensive marketing strategies. For everyday users, it means working with AI that better understands their needs and can take on more significant portions of projects independently.

What's around the corner?

According to Anthropic, the latest generation of Claude models points toward a future where AI systems become increasingly capable partners in both creative and knowledge work. For example: taking on more specialized roles in organizations like handling routine analysis, coordinating across departments, and even managing complete workflows with less oversight.

Dive deeper

Visit Anthropic's Claude in Amazon Bedrockproduct page for more detailed information on Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.1, and Claude Sonnet 4.
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