Amazon says customers can keep using Anthropic's Claude on its cloud for non-defense workloads

Amazon said Friday it will continue offering Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology to its cloud customers, excluding work involving the Department of Defense.

The announcement comes after the federal agency informed Anthropic on Thursday that it would label the company a “supply chain risk.” Anthropic responded by saying it has “no choice” but to challenge the designation in court.

“AWS customers and partners can continue to use Claude for all their workloads not associated with the Department of War (DoW),” an Amazon Web Services spokesperson said in a statement. “For all DoW workloads which use Anthropic technologies, we are supporting customers and partners as they transition to alternatives running on AWS.”

Several major technology companies have said they will stick with Anthropic’s technology despite the Pentagon blacklisting. Microsoft said late Thursday that Anthropic’s Claude models will remain available in its products. Google issued a similar statement on Friday.

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