Amazon Bedrock announced the support for Anthropic Claude models, including Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5, with in-region inference capabilities in Seoul and Singapore. This update is aimed at users with strict data residency requirements, particularly in financial services, healthcare, and the public sector.
What happened
Amazon Bedrock has introduced Anthropic Claude models, including Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5, with in-region inference capabilities in Seoul and Singapore. This feature allows users to process inference requests entirely within the specified AWS Region, ensuring strict data residency compliance. The models are available on the bedrock-runtime endpoint and can be accessed through the Amazon Bedrock console or programmatically using the InvokeModel API, Amazon Bedrock Converse API, and Anthropic Messages API. Users can monitor usage and costs through Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Cost Explorer.
In the Fathom Layer index
- Claude — AI Models & Intelligence
What to weigh
- Throughput is bounded by the Region’s capacity.
- Billing follows standard on-demand pricing.
Source: Amazon Web Services
