{"slug": "introducing-claude-fable-5-1-on-aws", "title": "Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS", "summary": "Anthropic announced the availability of Claude Fable 5.1 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, designating it a Covered Model with data retention up to 30 days and human review. The model improves agentic coding, autonomous operation, and scientific research, and Anthropic introduced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with AWS for eligible customers to deploy the model while keeping data in their control.", "body_md": "[Artificial Intelligence](/blogs/machine-learning/)\n\n# Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS\n\nToday, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Fable 5.1 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows.\n\nGiven its capabilities, Anthropic has designated Fable 5.1 a *Covered Model*, a category of Claude models that carry additional data retention, safety review, and access policies wherever they’re offered. For more information, see Amazon Bedrock [abuse detection](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/abuse-detection.html) and Anthropic’s [Covered Models](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425695-covered-models) page. Anthropic also announced the [Enterprise Frontier Safeguards](https://www.anthropic.com/news/enterprise-frontier-safeguards), a solution that will give customers the option to safely deploy Anthropic’s most capable models while keeping their data in cloud infrastructure they control. The Enterprise Frontier Safeguards section that follows covers what this means on Amazon Bedrock.\n\nThis post covers Claude Fable 5.1’s improvements, the Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, and how to start building with the model on Amazon Bedrock.\n\n## What makes Claude Fable 5.1 different\n\nAnthropic reports Fable 5.1 is a clear improvement over Fable 5 on the hardest reasoning tests Anthropic runs. These tests include competition mathematics, graduate-level questions in engineering and the sciences, and long multi-step problems where reliability is key. In day-to-day use that shows up as better judgment on ambiguous tasks and fewer confident wrong answers:\n\n**Agentic coding.** Carries more of a project on its own, from code base-spanning features to code review and performance work, across multi-hour sessions. It is also more honest: if it gets stuck it says so, and it is less likely to disable a failing test to pass.**Autonomous operation.** Built for multi-hour jobs that span many applications. It plans, uses the tools it needs, recovers when a step fails, and keeps you updated without being asked.**End-to-end knowledge work.** Takes an analysis from first question to finished document, doing the research, building the spreadsheet, writing the memo or deck, and checking its numbers as it goes. Built for everyday finance, accounting, and healthcare work.**Scientific research.** Supports research campaigns from literature and hypotheses to models, experiments, and formal verification.**Improved usability.** Keeps you updated on long tasks, writes more clearly, and follows instructions more closely.\n\n## Data retention\n\nBecause Claude Fable 5.1 is a [Covered Model](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425695-covered-models), its use is subject to data retention for up to 30 days and human review by Amazon personnel. With Amazon Bedrock, you can control data retention through a mode on your account or Amazon Bedrock project, which you configure with the [data retention API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/data-retention.html#data-retention-configuration). Using Claude Fable 5.1 requires the `aws_review`\n\nmode, which you set before you invoke the model. In this mode, AWS retains your prompts and outputs for human safety review within the AWS boundary. Claude Fable 5.1 does not require sharing with the model provider. See [Amazon Bedrock data retention](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/data-retention.html) for more details.\n\n## Enterprise Frontier Safeguards\n\n[Enterprise Frontier Safeguards](https://www.anthropic.com/news/enterprise-frontier-safeguards) (EFS), built in partnership between AWS and Anthropic, will help eligible customers use Claude Fable 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 models while keeping their data in a cloud environment they control.\n\nIf you are an EFS-eligible customer, you can use Claude Fable 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 with zero data retention (ZDR) on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. This is available for internal use through December 31, 2026. Additional Enterprise Frontier Safeguards will be available later this year, you will be able to keep your prompts and outputs in your AWS account, under your own encryption keys, access policies, and audit logging. Safety monitoring will be through automated review with no human review required.\n\n## Getting started with Claude Fable 5.1 on Amazon Bedrock\n\nTo try Fable 5.1, open the [Amazon Bedrock console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/), go to **Test > Playground**, and select Fable 5.1 as the model. From there, you can run a prompt directly against it.\n\nProgrammatically, you can call the model with the [Anthropic Messages API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-parameters-anthropic-claude-messages.html) against `bedrock-runtime`\n\n(through the Anthropic SDK). You can also stay on the [Invoke](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/inference-api.html) and [Converse](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/conversation-inference.html) APIs on `bedrock-runtime`\n\nthrough the [AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)](/cli/) and [AWS SDK](/developer/tools/).\n\n### Prerequisites\n\n- Active AWS account with Amazon Bedrock access.\n- AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) installed and configured.\n- Python 3.10+.\n- Boto3 installed:\n`pip install boto3`\n\n. - AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions:\n`bedrock:InvokeModel`\n\nand`bedrock:InvokeModelWithResponseStream`\n\n.\n\nHere’s a quick example using the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3):\n\nYou can explore the [Getting Started notebook](https://github.com/aws-samples/anthropic-on-aws/blob/main/notebooks/claude_fable_5_1_getting_started/claude-fable-5-1-getting-started.ipynb) for more examples.\n\n## Availability\n\nClaude Fable 5.1 is available today on Amazon Bedrock through the US Geo CRIS (us.) and Global CRIS (global.) inference profiles. In AWS GovCloud (US), it is available on both the bedrock-runtime and bedrock-mantle endpoints. See the [Bedrock documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-cards-anthropic.html) for the full list of supported Regions. For pricing information, see [Amazon Bedrock pricing](/bedrock/pricing/). It is also available through Claude Platform on AWS in North America.\n\nGive Claude Fable 5.1 a try in the [Amazon Bedrock console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/bedrock), in [Claude Platform on AWS](https://console.aws.amazon.com/claude-platform/), or explore the [Getting Started notebooks](https://github.com/aws-samples/anthropic-on-aws/tree/main/notebooks) on GitHub.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-claude-fable-5-1-on-aws", "canonical_source": "https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-claude-fable-5-1-on-aws/", "published_at": "2026-09-01 19:12:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-01 19:23:42.321587+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "AWS", "Amazon Bedrock", "Claude Fable 5.1", "Claude Fable 5", "Enterprise Frontier Safeguards"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-claude-fable-5-1-on-aws", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-claude-fable-5-1-on-aws.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-claude-fable-5-1-on-aws.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-claude-fable-5-1-on-aws.jsonld"}}