AI administrators deploying Claude Code and Claude Desktop across their workforce need centralized controls over authentication, model access, cost attribution, and spend enforcement. These controls reduce operational overhead and apply governance consistently at scale.

Claude apps gateway provides a self-hosted governance layer between these applications and Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS.

Building on our launch post, this post presents a production reference deployment covering end-to-end architecture, enterprise deployment patterns, cost, and implementation resources.

Architecture

This section covers the reference deployment topology and how requests flow through the gateway.