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Claude Opus 5 sharpens coding and cybersecurity work on AWS

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, improving on Claude Opus 4.8's cybersecurity and coding capabilities. The model automatically falls back to Opus 4.8 for higher-risk requests, with a notice to users and configurable fallback for API customers.

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Claude Opus 5 went live on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Anthropic says the model improves on Claude Opus 4.8’s cyber capabilities, coding through cybersecurity. Anyone with an AWS account in a supported region can call it. On higher-risk requests, Opus 5 hands the job back to Opus 4.8, the older model. The user sees a notice when that happens. API customers can configure the fallback. The guardrail that catches the riskiest requests … More

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