By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-02-11 11:34:00
Amazon employees are not allowed to use Anthropic’s Claude Code for production work without formal approval, says a Business Insider report. The restriction applies to live products and production code, even as other large tech companies encourage wider use of the AI coding tool. Specifically, this contrasts with software giant Microsoft that recently asked its engineers to test Claude Code alongside GitHub Copilot and share feedback on performance. As per the BI report, Amazon shared an internal guidance policy to its users last year, directing them to use Kiro, its in-house AI coding assistant. The guidance advised employees to rely on Kiro instead of non-approved third-party tools, including Claude Code, when writing production code.
Amazon employees ‘unhappy’
The move, the publication reports, triggered criticism across internal Amazon discussion forums. In one thread cited in the report, around 1,500 employees supported a request for Claude Code to be formally approved…
