"“While we continue to support existing tools in use today, we do not plan to support additional third party, AI development tools,” the memo read, as quoted by Reuters at the time. “As part of our builder community, you all play a critical role shaping these products and we use your feedback to aggressively improve them.”"
"Half a year later, Amazon is singing a dramatically different tune. As Business Insider reports, Amazon is officially throwing in the towel, succumbing to growing calls among employees for access to OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude."
"In a note to staffers obtained by BI, VP of Amazon software builder experience Jim Haughwout announced Claude Code would be made available, with Codex following next week. It's not a complete capitulation. Both coding tools will run on Amazon's Bedrock, a fully managed Amazon Web Services-based software that provides secure access to frontier AI models."
"That's not to mention its own doubling down on AI coding tools backfiring spectacularly, with Amazon admitting recent outages were related to poorly implemented AI-generated code."
Amazon previously directed employees to use its in-house code generation tool Kiro and said it would not support additional third-party AI development tools. After internal pressure for access to OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude, Amazon reversed course. Amazon announced that Claude Code would be made available, with Codex following the next week. Both tools will run on Amazon Bedrock, a managed AWS service that provides secure access to frontier AI models. The change reflects competitive pressure in AI coding and follows Amazon’s experience with AI-generated code contributing to outages. The shift also aligns with Amazon’s cloud strategy while acknowledging earlier limitations of Kiro.
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