AWS Launches Claude Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 in Amazon Bedrock Seoul Region
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AWS announced on the 30th that it will officially support Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5 in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region on Amazon Bedrock.
Domestic companies and institutions can now process inference workloads directly within the Seoul Region without transmitting data overseas, and regulated industries such as finance, public services, and healthcare have gained an environment that can meet Data Residency requirements.
AWS said the Claude models can be operated without rebuilding separate infrastructure, using region-specific inference profiles in the Bedrock console and AWS-native security and monitoring tools.
AWS announced on the 30th that it will officially support Anthropic's latest AI models, Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5, in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region on Amazon Bedrock. With this addition, new models have been added to the Amazon Bedrock Seoul Region, allowing organizations to selectively adopt them based on business needs.
With this support, domestic companies and institutions can process inference workloads directly within the Seoul Region without transmitting data overseas. As a result, communication latency with distant regions is reduced, and an environment has been created that can meet Data Residency requirements even in regulated industries such as finance, public services, and healthcare.
By model, Claude Opus 5 is specialized for complex agent-based coding and advanced enterprise tasks. Claude Sonnet 5 aims for a balance between intelligence and response speed, and is optimized for real-world production workloads such as large-scale document processing, coding assistance, and customer service AICC.
AWS said that no separate infrastructure rebuild is needed to improve ease of adoption. It said that region-specific inference profiles can be configured in the Bedrock console, and that the system automatically routes the optimal path to minimize engineering resources. It added that the latest AI capabilities can be integrated into existing AWS infrastructure environments.
AWS emphasized domestic processing of the Claude models and operation based on existing enterprise governance frameworks. It explained that the Claude models processed in Korea are operated through model execution in Bedrock within the customer environment, and that the data is not used for model retraining.
AWS also said that Bedrock within the customer environment is immediately integrated with AWS-native security and monitoring tools. AWS CloudTrail transparently records model access histories, AWS IAM tightly controls invocation permissions, and Amazon CloudWatch tracks real-time usage, latency, and costs, it explained.
Ham Ki-ho AWS Korea CEO said that Korean companies have the ability to adopt AI quickly, but are pursuing the selection of suitable models under security and control frameworks appropriate for their businesses. He added that AWS will provide the latest Claude models within proven Seoul Region infrastructure, thereby supporting the maintenance of data sovereignty for domestic organizations, including regulated industries, while also helping them advance AI workloads in real operating environments.
Choi Ki-young, CEO of Anthropic Korea, said that Korea is a major AI market that demands both advanced technological capability and strict adoption standards. He said that this domestic inference support has significantly lowered adoption barriers for institutions handling sensitive data, such as finance, healthcare, and the public sector, and added that Anthropic plans to continue investing in Korea and expanding its organization to provide close support for Korean companies' AI transformation.
Source: IT DAILY · Kwon Yeong-seok
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