Cloud service provider Skaylink is expanding its AI portfolio with a new partnership: as an Anthropic Authorized Reseller, the company offers access to Claude on Amazon Bedrock — including consulting, integration, and operations from a single source. A partnership that carries strategic weight, given the multi-billion-dollar alliance between Amazon and Anthropic.
Skaylink, one of Germany’s leading cloud service providers and a Vodafone Company, has announced a new partnership with AI company Anthropic: the Hamburg-based firm is now an Anthropic Authorized Reseller for Amazon Bedrock. In practical terms, this means businesses can now access Claude’s powerful AI models alongside consulting, technical integration, and ongoing operations — all from a single source. Sounds like just another typical reseller deal? It isn’t. The timing, for one, is anything but coincidental.
Billions Behind It: Amazon and Anthropic Bet on the Long Term
The AI world is moving faster than ever, and Amazon has taken decisive action: the tech giant recently expanded its investment in Anthropic to up to $33 billion — $8 billion already committed as prior investment, plus up to $25 billion in fresh capital. Anthropic, in turn, has committed to investing over $100 billion in AWS technologies. This is not a short-term partnership — it is a strategic commitment for the next decade. For Skaylink customers, this is reassuring news: choosing Claude on Amazon Bedrock today means investing in a platform backed by powerful, long-term partners.
From Pilot to Production — The Real Challenge
Demand for enterprise AI solutions is growing rapidly. Yet between the desire for AI and productive deployment, there is often a wide gap. Many companies have launched initial pilots — and then get stuck. The questions that arise are always similar: How do I securely integrate a language model into my existing IT infrastructure? How do I keep costs under control? And how do I move from a test environment to real production use? This is exactly where Skaylink comes in. As an authorized reseller, the company supports the integration of Claude models — including Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and Claude Haiku 4.5 — into existing AWS architectures. Security and compliance requirements are addressed alongside enterprise-wide governance structures and individual architectural specifications. Access to Claude is provided directly through Amazon Bedrock, with billing seamlessly integrated into customers’ existing AWS contracts — no additional platforms, no friction.
No Extra Overhead: Claude Comes to the Existing AWS World
For companies already running productive AWS environments, this is a tangible advantage. There is no need to establish new contractual relationships, initiate separate compliance reviews, or build parallel infrastructures. Claude comes into the existing world — not the other way around. Skaylink supports the entire journey: from developing and validating initial use cases, to technically integrating them into existing systems and processes, to building scalable architectures and managing production operations. With more than 550 cloud experts for AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365, as well as its own data centers, Skaylink brings the necessary expertise to the table.
Claude for Demanding Enterprise Tasks
Claude is particularly well-suited for demanding enterprise applications: software development, agent-based workflows, and complex analytical and reasoning tasks. The models are now being used productively in a growing number of companies — no longer as experiments, but as integral components of business processes.
What the Leaders Say
Frank Strecker, CEO of Skaylink, captures the essence of the partnership:
“The real value of AI is not created in the test lab, but where it is reliably integrated into a company’s day-to-day operations. With Claude, we offer our customers access to a frontier model for coding, agent-based applications, and enterprise workflows — directly in Amazon Bedrock, and thus on the AWS platform that many of them already use. As an authorized reseller, we combine deep AI expertise with comprehensive AWS experience, guiding our customers from the first concept through to productive deployment.”
Heleen Herselman, Business Unit Lead AWS at Skaylink, adds a customer perspective:
“Many of our customers are already running productive AWS environments. With Claude on Amazon Bedrock, they can now embed AI directly into this existing infrastructure — without additional platforms and without compromising on security or compliance. We are delighted to offer our customers direct access to Claude as an authorized reseller and to efficiently guide them from their first use case into productive operations.”
Conclusion: The Missing Piece
The new reseller partnership is a logical next step in Skaylink’s strategy to further expand its AI & Cloud practice. The combination of authorized access to Claude, deep AWS competence, and a full-service approach — from use case to production — makes Skaylink one of the few providers in Germany capable of covering this entire journey from a single source. For companies that want to not just try AI, but truly deploy it, this partnership could be the missing piece.
Dr. Jakob Jung is Editor-in-Chief of Security Storage and Channel Germany. He has been working in IT journalism for more than 20 years. His career includes Computer Reseller News, Heise Resale, Informationweek, Techtarget (storage and data center) and ChannelBiz. He also freelances for numerous IT publications, including Computerwoche, Channelpartner, IT-Business, Storage-Insider and ZDnet. His main topics are channel, storage, security, data center, ERP and CRM.
Contact via Mail: jakob.jung@security-storage-und-channel-germany.de