Author: Jonathan Evans

Anthropic’s newest foundation model, Claude Opus 4.5, is now available in Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies. In this post, I’ll show you what makes this model different, walk through key business applications, and demonstrate how to use Opus 4.5’s new tool use capabilities on Amazon Bedrock.

In this post, we’ll explore how to combine Amazon Bedrock prompt caching with Claude Code—a coding agent released by Anthropic that is now generally available. This powerful combination transforms your development workflow by delivering lightning-fast responses from reducing inference response latency, as well as lowering input token costs.