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Claude on Bedrock Expands to India, South Korea, and Singapore with In-Country Inference!

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Hi everyone, it's Shii-chan! There's good news for anyone who wanted to use Claude in Asian Regions!

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What was announced?

AWS What's New announced that Anthropic's Claude models on Amazon Bedrock are expanding to India, South Korea, and Singapore.

Here's what's available in each country:

  • India: Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Haiku 4.5
  • South Korea: Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5
  • Singapore: Claude Sonnet 5

Why it matters

Many customers, including those in financial services, healthcare, and the public sector, need to process data within a specific geography. With this expansion, they can use these models at scale while keeping inference in-country!

What changes

Teams that put off adopting Claude because of data residency requirements can now consider an in-country setup.

The announcement says Amazon Bedrock processes inference requests and data within the Region you call, and processing never leaves that Region.

Dive Deep

Delivery differs a bit by location, so here's the breakdown:

  • India: geographic cross-Region inference across the Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions. You can process data in India Regions, and the already supported global cross-Region inference is still available
  • South Korea: in-region inference on the bedrock-runtime endpoint in the Seoul (ap-northeast-2) Region
  • Singapore: in-region inference on the bedrock-runtime endpoint in ap-southeast-1

For the latest availability, see "Regional availability by models" in the Amazon Bedrock User Guide.

Wrap-up

  • India gets Opus 5, Sonnet 5, and Haiku 4.5; South Korea gets Opus 5 and Sonnet 5; Singapore gets Sonnet 5
  • India uses geographic cross-Region inference across Mumbai and Hyderabad
  • South Korea and Singapore use in-region inference on their bedrock-runtime endpoints
  • Inference and data stay in the Region you call

This is great news if you work in finance, healthcare, or the public sector and need data to stay in-country!

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