AWS Launches Claude Apps Gateway for Enterprise Spend and Access Controls

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the Claude apps gateway for AWS on July 8, 2026, a self-hosted control plane for managing Claude Code and Claude Desktop across organizations. The cloud computing giant said the tool gives IT administrators a single point of control over access, cost, and policy for developers using Anthropic's coding tools.

According to the company, the gateway removes the need to provision separate cloud credentials for each developer, distribute settings manually, or build custom tooling to track spend. Organizations can deploy it through Amazon Bedrock to keep data inside the AWS security boundary, or through Claude Platform on AWS for the native Claude platform experience, the company said.

How the system works

The gateway is built into the same Claude Code command-line interface (CLI) binary developers already use, AWS said. It runs as a stateless container backed by a PostgreSQL database that stores short-lived sign-in state and rate-limit counters.

Access follows an organization's existing identity provider (IdP), the company said. Administrators grant access by adding a developer to the IdP and revoke it by removing them, after which sessions expire within a configured token lifetime that defaults to one hour.