AWS Details Claude Code Deployment on Amazon Bedrock in GovCloud (US)

Amazon Web Services published guidance on its Machine Learning Blog on October 5, 2026, detailing how organizations with regulatory or compliance requirements, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), can run Anthropic’s Claude Code with Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

According to the post, Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 hold FedRAMP Class D (formerly High) certification on Amazon Bedrock, while Claude Sonnet 5 holds FedRAMP Class D certification and DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 (IL4/IL5) authorization. Bedrock in GovCloud (US) offers FedRAMP Class D and DoD Cloud Service Provider SRG IL4/IL5 authorization pathways, and its built-in data protection means customer content is not stored, logged, used to train AWS models, or shared with third parties.

Claude Opus 5.5 became available on AWS GovCloud (US) on September 22, 2026, according to an AWS announcement, and Claude…