This is exactly it. For any reasonably sized org, setting up new contracts with new vendors involves a lot of procurement, lawyers, negotiations, etc.
If a team can just click a button in AWS, there’s no issue.
This is a product / solution that solves an organizational problem, not a technical one.
I wouldn’t even call it a hack as much as extremely common a strategy.
The Bedrock models, at least, have additional click through EULAs for Anthropic models. You’re going to need to review and agree to those as well.
Claude is going to be marketplace spend and that’s usually capped towards your PPA at 25%.
“I don’t have the budget for this but we have AWS credits” is something teams beg for all the time.
When people beg to give you money, you accept it. Why? It’s not some conspiracy theory. You accept the money because it’s money.
Through AWS, assuming the underlying data governance is reasonable, this will be a much easier pill to swallow.
In my org, I have to file a form for reimbursement if I bought a pencil for $0.25 but in AWS? spend varies by +/- $5k per month and nobody even questions it. This will definitely make it trivially easy for me to build on Anthropic's services without even telling anybody vs the hoops I would have to jump to get it paid for another way.
Can confirm that this is the one and only reason that we use Claude through AWS