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02/17/2026 | News release | Distributed by Public on 02/17/2026 12:21

Claude Sonnet 4.6 from Anthropic available in Amazon Bedrock

February 17, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Sonnet 4.6.
February 5, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 4.6.
November 24, 2025: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 4.5.
October 15, 2025: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Haiku 4.5.
September 29, 2025: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Sonnet 4.5.
August 5, 2025: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 4.1.

Key takeaways

  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers frontier intelligence at scale-built for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 excels at autonomous coding, enterprise agents, and professional work, transforming multi-day projects into hours-long tasks.
  • Both models can process extensive documents and codebases, supporting 200K and 1M context tokens (preview).
Amazon Web Services (AWS)has announced the availability of Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6, Anthropic's latest AI models, in Amazon Bedrock. Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's most intelligent model, setting new standards across complex coding projects and multi-step enterprise workflows, while Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's best computer use model yet.
The addition of Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock enhances customers' AI choices with increasingly advanced models, simplifying how customers build better, more transformative applications with enterprise-grade security and responsible AI controls.

Why you should care

  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers near-Opus intelligence at a more accessible price point of $3/$15. It's smart enough to navigate complex codebases independently and can iterate on agentic workflows while maintaining high quality. Users can also leverage Claude Sonnet 4.6's adaptive thinking and effort controls to build features, draft documents, refactor, and debug, making knowledge work and high-volume deployments more accessible at scale.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 is ideal for demanding use cases such as long-horizon, multi-step projects where deep reasoning, precision, and reliability are required. For coding specifically, it compresses multi-day projects into hours, handling the full lifecycle from gathering requirements to implementation and maintenance, so senior engineers can delegate complex work with confidence and less oversight.

Straight from the source: Anthropic on Claude

"Claude models consistently set new standards in coding, advanced reasoning, and multi-step workflows while understanding full business contexts and delivering precise results," said Kate Jensen, head of Americas at Anthropic. "The real breakthrough is freeing your talent for strategic work while Claude handles the heavy lifting."

The bigger story

Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6 represent a significant leap forward in agentic AI capabilities, transforming how businesses can deploy AI for both specialized complex tasks and everyday high-volume operations. Rather than simply generating content, these models function more like expert virtual collaborators-maintaining focus across complex tasks, preserving relevant context, and delivering complete solutions without constant guidance. This capability transforms how organizations can tackle challenges from developing software systems to creating comprehensive marketing strategies.
Enterprises can use these models for stronger spreadsheet and financial model creation, helping finance, legal, and other verticals where iteration speed, polish, and domain accuracy are critical. For everyday users, it means working with AI that better understands their needs and can take on more significant portions of projects independently.

What's around the corner?

According to Anthropic, the Claude 4 generation of models points toward a future where AI systems become increasingly capable partners in both creative and knowledge work. For example, these models can take on more specialized roles in organizations such as handling routine analysis, coordinating across departments, and even managing complete workflows with less oversight.

Dive deeper

Visit Anthropic's Claude in Amazon Bedrock product pagefor more detailed information on Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.1, and Claude Sonnet 4.
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