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

We’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 in India. 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. In this post, we discuss how India geographic cross-Region inference works from the Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions on Amazon Bedrock for Anthropic Claude models. We also show how to get started from the Amazon Bedrock console and with code, using Anthropic’s Messages API, Amazon Bedrock InvokeModel API, and Converse API.

India inference 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. The request originates from your source Region where you make the API call and is…