Amazon Bedrock adds local Claude inference in India, Seoul and Singapore

On September 30, 2026, the AWS Machine Learning Blog published two notes about expanding access to Anthropic's Claude models on Amazon Bedrock in Asia.

The first note covers Seoul and Singapore. Amazon Bedrock now supports Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5 with in-region inference in Seoul, and Claude Sonnet 5 in Singapore. AWS frames this around local data processing requirements: customers in South Korea or Singapore that have such requirements can now use these Anthropic models at scale, with inference processed entirely within the Region they call.

The second note covers India, where Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 are now available through Amazon Bedrock geographic cross-Region inference. Customers can access these models while processing data within the India Regions. AWS says users can get started from the Amazon Bedrock console or through the Messages, InvokeModel, and Converse APIs.

Both posts carry the same publication timestamp, and neither states a launch order across the Regions or any date beyond September 30, 2026. What the notes do make clear is the scope of model support. Seoul and India include Opus 5 and Sonnet 5, Singapore and India include Sonnet 5, and Haiku 4.5 appears only in the India note. The India deployment is described as geographic cross-Region inference, while the Seoul and Singapore note describes in-region inference for the models it lists. The two notes together mark Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5, and Haiku 4.5 becoming reachable through Amazon Bedrock in these locations under the stated data-processing conditions.