Introducing Amazon Bedrock global cross-Region inference for Anthropic’s Claude models in the Middle East Regions (UAE and Bahrain)

We’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 through Amazon Bedrock global cross-Region inference for customers operating in the Middle East. This launch supports organizations in the Middle East to access Anthropic’s latest Claude models on Amazon Bedrock while benefiting from global, highly available inference routing across the AWS network. With global cross-Region inference, you can scale inference workloads seamlessly, improve resiliency, and reduce operational complexity.

To help you achieve the scale of your AI applications, Amazon Bedrock offers cross-Region inference profiles, a powerful feature organizations can use to seamlessly distribute inference processing across multiple AWS Regions. This capability helps you get higher throughput while you’re building at scale and helps keep your generative AI applications responsive and reliable even under heavy load. When you ...