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Amazon Bedrock now offers Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 through an India geographic inference profile. AWS says requests using this profile route only between Mumbai and Hyderabad AWS Regions.
What changed?
The India profile lets organisations use supported Claude models while keeping inference processing within India. This is useful for workloads with local-processing requirements.
Which regions are used?
AWS identifies ap-south-1 in Mumbai and ap-south-2 in Hyderabad. Requests can move between these two Indian Regions depending on capacity.
Which Claude models are supported?
- Claude Opus 5
- Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Haiku 4.5
How is this different from global inference?
The India geographic profile limits inference routing to India. Global cross-Region inference can use a wider pool of AWS Regions, so customers who specifically need India-only processing should choose the India profile.
How can developers access it?
AWS says the models are available through the Bedrock runtime endpoint and support the Anthropic Messages API plus Bedrock InvokeModel and Converse APIs.
Quick answers
Does every Claude request automatically stay in India?
No. The India-only routing described here applies to the Amazon Bedrock India geographic inference profile.
Which Indian AWS Regions handle it?
Mumbai and Hyderabad.
Sources: AWS official announcement and technical guide. Hero: Claude website screenshot via Wikimedia Commons.