Bedrock Claude Models Expand to India, South Korea, Singapore

Anthropic's latest Claude models are now available in three new AWS regions, with a focus on in-country data processing.

What changed

• Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5, and Haiku 4.5 are now available on Amazon Bedrock in India.
• Claude Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 are available on Amazon Bedrock in South Korea.
• Claude Sonnet 5 is available on Amazon Bedrock in Singapore.

Why it matters

This expansion allows customers in India, South Korea, and Singapore to run inference for Anthropic's Claude models within their respective AWS regions. This is particularly relevant for workloads in financial services, healthcare, and the public sector that have strict data residency requirements. Previously, customers in these regions might have relied on global endpoints or alternative services, potentially incurring higher latency or facing compliance hurdles. The availability of these models within specific geographic boundaries simplifies compliance and can improve performance for localized applications.

The catch

While the announcement highlights in-country inference, the specifics for India mention "geographic cross-Region inference across the Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions." This phrasing suggests that data processing might still span multiple regions within India, rather than a single, isolated region, which could be a nuance for the most stringent data sovereignty needs. Furthermore, the specific model versions vary by region (e.g., Haiku 4.5 is only in India), and availability of newer model iterations is not guaranteed to be simultaneous across all expanded regions.

Ship it

If your workload requires Claude models and operates under strict data residency mandates in India, South Korea, or Singapore, evaluate the specific regional endpoint configurations in ap-south-1 (India), ap-northeast-2 (Seoul), and ap-southeast-1 (Singapore) to ensure compliance with your data processing policies. Pairs with Amazon Bedrock's existing infrastructure for model hosting.

Bottom line: Anthropic's Claude models are now closer to users in India, South Korea, and Singapore, simplifying compliance for data residency.

— Filed to /aws