Claude Ai: Now, requests sent to Claude to be processed within India

BENGALURU: Anthropic has brought in-country inference for its Claude AI models to India through Amazon Bedrock, allowing requests sent via its India endpoint to be processed on servers located within the country.The move addresses data residency requirements of regulated sectors, allowing enterprises to keep sensitive AI workloads within India.In simple terms, when an Indian customer uses the India endpoint, the prompt sent to Claude and the model’s response are processed on servers in India. Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s unified platform for accessing and deploying generative AI models, provides the infrastructure through which customers can access Claude locally.Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 are now available with in-country inference through Amazon Bedrock in India. India is Anthropic’s second-largest market for Claude.ai, with software development accounting for 45.2% of work-related tasks users bring to Claude in the country – the highest share of any market, said Irina Ghose, managing director at Anthropic India, in an interview with TOI.Over the past year, adoption has widened across banking and payments, large enterprises, IT services, digital companies, healthcare, science and public services. TCS is equipping 50,000 associates with Claude, while Infosys is combining it with its Topaz platform. Cognizant uses Claude in systems it builds for clients, while LTTS is embedding it in its engineering platforms.“Requests sent to Claude through the India endpoint are processed on servers located within India. That is what our customers in India, especially in regulated sectors, asked us for: to use Claude on their most critical work with every request processed within the country,” Ghose said. Financial institutions, govt bodies and large enterprises sought local inference because of regulatory and data-handling requirements, she added.Ghose also said local inference could allow deployments that had been waiting on the capability to move ahead.