AWS expands Anthropic Claude access to India via Bedrock

Amazon Web Services has made Anthropic's Claude models available to developers in India through Amazon Bedrock's Global cross-Region Inference feature. The expansion covers Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Opus 4.5, and Claude Sonnet 4.5 -- routed from AWS data centers in Mumbai (ap-south-1) and Hyderabad (ap-south-2) to all commercial AWS regions globally. Each model supports a 1-million token context window, roughly equivalent to a full-length novel of input text in a single request.

Global cross-Region Inference is an AWS capacity management tool that automatically distributes AI processing requests across multiple data centers when demand spikes in a single location. For Indian developers building consumer-facing applications -- e-commerce platforms during Diwali, tax preparation services in March and April, or sports platforms during cricket season -- this means the AI powering their products is less likely to slow down or fail during high-traffic moments. Rather than queuing behind other users when a single data center is saturated, requests are spread across AWS's global network to maintain consistent response times.