Claude Opus 4.7 is on Bedrock. Amazon just bet $25 billion it's the future. Here's what engineers need to know.

Two things happened this week that belong in the same sentence. On April 16, AWS added Claude Opus 4.7 to Amazon Bedrock — Anthropic's most capable publicly available model, with 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified and 69.4% on Terminal-Bench 2.0. Then on April 20, Amazon announced it would invest up to an additional $25 billion in Anthropic, on top of the $8 billion it had already committed — with Anthropic pledging to spend more than $100 billion on AWS technologies over the next ten years. This is no