Amazon Bedrock Expands Cross-Region Access to Anthropic Claude Models in Asia-Pacific and Middle East

Amazon Bedrock Expands Cross-Region Access to Anthropic Claude Models in Asia-Pacific and Middle East

Amazon Web Services has announced the availability of global cross-Region inference (CRIS) for Anthropic’s Claude models through Amazon Bedrock in multiple new markets, according to two AWS blog posts.

The expansion covers seven countries across two regions:

Asia-Pacific: Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan now have access to the latest Claude Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models through the global cross-Region inference feature, according to the AWS announcement.

Middle East: Customers in the UAE and Bahrain can now access Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 through Amazon Bedrock’s global cross-Region inference, according to AWS.

According to the AWS posts, the announcements include technical implementation guidance and quota management best practices for maximizing AI inference deployments. The global cross-Region inference feature allows customers in these regions to access Anthropic’s Claude models through Amazon Bedrock’s infrastructure.

This expansion enables customers in these markets to deploy Claude models for their AI applications through AWS’s managed service platform.