Amazon Bedrock expands Claude model availability to in-country inferencing in India

What happened

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 are now available in India through Amazon Bedrock geographic cross-Region inference. You can access these models while processing data within the India Regions, and get started from the Amazon Bedrock console or with the Messages, InvokeModel, and Converse APIs. Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, and its products and services include Claude and Claude Code.

The India regional endpoint is served through geographic cross-Region inference . Customers in India can now access these models on Amazon Bedrock while processing the data in the India Regions in addition to the already supported global cross-Region inference .

This can be useful when customers need to meet the requirements to process data locally in a desired geography. India inference (running a trained model to get an answer, rather than training it) To help you achieve the scale of your AI applications, Amazon Bedrock offers cross-Region inference profiles, a feature you can use to distribute inference across multiple AWS Regions without having to manage capacity in each Region.