Supercharge regulated workloads with Claude Code and Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are available on Amazon Bedrock in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Learn how to use them with Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool, for compliance-aligned, AI-assisted development on regulated and ITAR workloads.
This informational post outlines how to utilize Anthropic's Claude Code with Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, which are designed for US customers with stringent compliance needs. Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that operates within your development environment, capable of writing, fixing, and testing code across multiple files, answering architectural queries, and integrating with tools like AWS CLI, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
The post emphasizes that Claude Code can help accelerate development tasks while preserving compliance alignment, making it suitable for workloads with regulatory or compliance requirements, including ITAR. To set up Claude Code, users must have an AWS GovCloud (US) account, the necessary IAM permissions, and access to Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, and Claude Sonnet 5 models on Amazon Bedrock.
The instructions detail the prerequisites, including configuring the AWS CLI and installing Claude Code using either a shell script or PowerShell command.
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