Amazon employees pushed for Claude Code. Now they're getting it
Some Amazon staff had complained about a lack of access to top AI coding tools, arguing the company risked falling behind in developer productivity.
TL;DR
- Amazon is formally rolling out Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to all corporate employees.
- Both tools will be accessible via Amazon Bedrock and managed through AWS.
- This expansion comes after internal complaints from engineers who preferred these external tools over Amazon's in-house Kiro tool.
- The company has made substantial investments in both Anthropic and OpenAI.
- By running these models on Bedrock, Amazon maintains control over data security and compliance.