# Palantir-Anthropic-AWS Defense Partnership
**Entity class:** Defense and intelligence model-platform partnership
**Architecture:** [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]]
## Definition
The **Palantir–Anthropic–AWS Defense Partnership** brings Anthropic Claude models through Amazon Web Services into Palantir AIP for United States defense and intelligence users.
## Modern Defense and Cybersecurity Role
The arrangement demonstrates the modular private intelligence stack: a model company supplies frontier inference, a hyperscaler supplies accredited compute and model hosting, and Palantir supplies governed mission data, ontology, workflows, and deployment.
## Chronological Proximity
The partnership was announced in November 2024, months after the Microsoft–Palantir classified-cloud expansion.
## Relational Proximity
Anthropic supplies Claude, AWS supplies cloud and model infrastructure, and [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence Platform|AIP]] connects the model to authorized operational data and actions.
## Collection Routes
[[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]
## Sources / Provenance
- [Primary documentation](https://www.palantir.com/newsroom/press-releases/)