Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on AWS
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This article announces the availability of Claude Haiku 5.5 on AWS, Anthropic's fastest and most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, designed for cost-sensitive and high-volume workloads.
- Claude Haiku 5.5 costs approximately 75% less than Claude Haiku 4.5 for most tasks
- Improved capabilities in coding, tool use, computer use, and agents compared to Haiku 4.5
- First Haiku model with effort controls to tune cost versus intelligence per task
- Ideal for real-time applications like voice agents, live support, and in-app assistants
- Suitable for high-volume tasks including classification, summarization, and document field extraction
- Works efficiently as a subagent alongside more capable models like Claude Opus 5.5
- Accessible via Amazon Bedrock with AWS data residency and managed features like Guardrails
- Also available through Claude Platform on AWS with native Anthropic experience and unified AWS billing
Claude Haiku 5.5 enables cost-effective AI deployment for speed-critical and high-volume applications on AWS infrastructure.
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