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.
Deployment topology
Claude apps gateway ships in the same Claude Code CLI binary that developers already run. Started with claude gateway --config gateway.yaml, it runs in server mode and loads its YAML configuration at startup. In this reference…
