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Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US)

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AWS·1 week ago · Jun 30, 2026, 12:00 PMFeatureSecurity-relevantAI-assisted summary

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Claude Opus 4.8 is now offered on AWS GovCloud (US) through Amazon Bedrock.
The model adds longer autonomous runs, deeper reasoning, improved coding assistance, and better agentic and knowledge‑work capabilities for production AI applications.
Data stays within AWS GovCloud infrastructure with Bedrock Guardrails and regional residency for enhanced security.

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