Introducing Anthropic models on Amazon Bedrock for in-region inference in Seoul and Singapore

Amazon Bedrock now supports the Anthropic Claude models: Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5 in Seoul and Claude Sonnet 5 in Singapore with in-region inference on the bedrock-runtime endpoint. If you have local data processing requirements in South Korea or Singapore, for example, in financial services, healthcare, and the public sector, you can now use these Anthropic models at scale.

Amazon Bedrock processes inference requests and data within the Region you call. The processing does not leave the Region. In this post, we walk through how in-region inference works from the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region (ap-northeast-2) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region (ap-southeast-1) using the bedrock-runtime endpoint. We also show how to get started from the Amazon Bedrock console and with code, using the Amazon Bedrock Converse API, the InvokeModel API, and the Anthropic Messages API.

In-region inference To help you meet strict data residency requirements for your AI applications, Amazon Bedrock offers in-region inference. Your request is processed entirely within the single AWS Region you specify, and it does not leave that Region. Use this when you have a…