Breaking: AWS Expands AI and Connectivity Capabilities
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the general availability of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 on Amazon Bedrock, alongside the launch of AWS Interconnect, a new managed private connectivity service. Claude Opus 4.7, the most intelligent model from Anthropic, sets new benchmarks in agentic coding and knowledge work. AWS Interconnect simplifies last-mile connectivity and enables private multicloud links.
“This is a leap forward for enterprises building AI-powered applications,” said an AWS spokesperson. “Claude Opus 4.7’s performance on coding and complex reasoning will transform how developers work.”
Claude Opus 4.7 Now Available on Amazon Bedrock
Claude Opus 4.7 scores 64.3% on SWE-bench Pro and 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified, establishing a new lead in agentic coding. It features stronger long-horizon autonomy, complex code reasoning, and improved performance on document creation, financial analysis, and multi-step research.
The model runs on Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine with dynamic capacity allocation and adaptive thinking. It can allocate thinking token budgets based on request complexity and supports a full 1M token context window. High-resolution image support improves accuracy on charts, dense documents, and screen UIs.
Initial availability spans US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Stockholm). Accounts can process up to 10,000 requests per minute per region.
“Claude Opus 4.7 raises the bar for what’s possible in AI-assisted coding and professional knowledge work,” said Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. “We’re proud to offer it through AWS Bedrock.”
AWS Interconnect Reaches General Availability
AWS Interconnect delivers two managed private connectivity capabilities. First, Interconnect – Multicloud provides Layer 3 private connections between AWS VPCs and Google Cloud, with Azure and OCI support planned later in 2026. Traffic flows over the AWS global backbone and partner cloud private networks, secured with MACsec encryption and monitored via CloudWatch.
Second, Interconnect – Last Mile simplifies high-speed private connections from branch offices, data centers, and remote locations to AWS. It automatically provisions four redundant connections across two physical locations, configures BGP routing, and enables MACsec encryption and Jumbo Frames by default. Bandwidth ranges from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps and is adjustable.
AWS has published the underlying specification on GitHub under Apache 2.0, allowing any cloud provider to become an Interconnect partner. “This open approach ensures broad adoption and flexibility for customers,” the spokesperson added.
Background
The launch comes amid accelerating enterprise adoption of generative AI and hybrid cloud architectures. AWS Bedrock has become a key platform for accessing large language models with enterprise controls. Claude Opus 4.7 follows earlier models like Claude 3 and Claude 3.5, each pushing performance boundaries.
AWS Interconnect addresses long-standing customer demands for simpler, more secure private networking between cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure. The last-mile solution competes with offerings from Equinix and Megaport, but AWS’s integrated management and automatic redundancy aim to reduce complexity.
What This Means
For developers and enterprises, Claude Opus 4.7 offers state-of-the-art coding assistance that can handle complex, long-running agents. This could reduce development cycles and improve software quality. The model’s knowledge work capabilities also enable more autonomous document generation and analysis.
AWS Interconnect’s multicloud capability lets organizations build resilient, low-latency architectures across AWS and Google Cloud without traversing the public internet. The Last Mile feature cuts the time and cost of setting up dedicated connections from remote sites. Together, these announcements strengthen AWS’s position in both AI and cloud networking.
“Customers can now combine the best AI models with private, high-performance connectivity,” said the AWS spokesperson. “This is a game-changer for digital transformation.”