# AWS expands in-country Claude inference in India, South Korea and Singapore

_Published Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 9:18 AM EDT · AI, Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

AWS announced expanded Claude model access on Amazon Bedrock for customers needing to keep inference within India, South Korea or Singapore. India gains Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5; South Korea gains Opus 5 and Sonnet 5; Singapore gains Sonnet 5.

In India, requests use geographic cross-Region inference across Mumbai and Hyderabad, keeping processing within India. South Korea and Singapore use in-region endpoints in Seoul and Singapore, respectively, with processing remaining in the called region.

AWS identifies financial services, healthcare and public-sector customers as users of these geographic controls. The model selection differs by country.

## Sources

- [Recent Announcements](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/claude-region-expansion-in-sk/)

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