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Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives on Bedrock at a lower cost than Haiku 4.5

aws.amazon.com by Aamna Najmi 5 min read Editor score 7/10

AWS says Haiku 5.5 is available on Bedrock and costs around 75% less than Haiku 4.5 for most tasks, with AWS IAM, audit and monitoring controls. The release is relevant to teams comparing model cost and deployment options.

What

Claude Haiku 5.5 is available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS for high-volume, cost-sensitive workloads.

How

Anthropic says it costs around 75% less than Haiku 4.5 for most tasks; effort controls let teams tune cost against intelligence per task.

Why it matters

Bedrock keeps data within AWS infrastructure with regional residency and integrates IAM, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and Bedrock Guardrails.

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