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# Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and User Activity Monitoring now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US)

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## Summary

AWS has expanded Kiro IDE and CLI availability in GovCloud (US) regions with two new Claude models and enterprise monitoring features. Claude Opus 4.8 offers advanced self-verification, long-horizon task planning, and a 1M context window at a 2.2x credit multiplier. Claude Sonnet 5 brings strong agentic coding and reasoning at lower cost with a 1.3x credit multiplier. Enterprise admins gain a usage dashboard, per-user daily CSV telemetry delivered to S3, and optional prompt logging for compliance — all stored in the customer's own AWS account at no extra charge beyond S3 costs.

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