Claude in Amazon Bedrock: FedRAMP High and DoD IL4/5 Approval

Claude models are now approved for use in FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 workloads through Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. This allows federal agencies and defense organizations to deploy frontier AI for mission-critical applications while meeting the highest government security requirements for unclassified and controlled unclassified information.

Security Certifications for Sensitive Workloads

Claude in Amazon Bedrock now supports workloads requiring FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level (IL) 4 and 5 authorizations. These certifications represent the highest levels of cloud security for unclassified and controlled unclassified information, enabling the use of Claude across the full spectrum of unclassified government workloads.

Available Models and Bedrock Capabilities

Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 and Claude 3 Haiku are currently available for these secure environments. Users can leverage these models alongside integrated Amazon Bedrock features, including:

• Amazon Bedrock Agents: For automating multistep tasks.
• Guardrails: For implementing customized security safeguards.
• Knowledge Bases: For customizing applications with specific data.
• Model Evaluation: For selecting the most appropriate model for a specific use case.

Anthropic has indicated that additional models, including Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 4, may be added in the future.

Government Use Cases and Capabilities

Federal agencies can utilize Claude's advanced intelligence and 200K token context window to perform the following tasks in secure environments:

• Complex Document Analysis: Conducting intelligence synthesis and analysis of large datasets.
• AI Agent Development: Building agents capable of processing controlled unclassified information.

Deployment Flexibility and Access

Claude is available as a fully managed service on Amazon Bedrock, reducing infrastructure complexity while maintaining strict security controls. Government customers have the flexibility to deploy across multiple secure platforms, including:

• Amazon Bedrock: Supports FedRAMP Moderate and High, and DoD IL2 and IL4/5.
• Google Cloud Vertex AI: Supports FedRAMP High and IL2.

Federal agency employees, defense contractors, and approved partners can access these models through AWS GovCloud (US) regions using standard AWS APIs and management tools.