Claude claude-sonnet-4-20250514 on Amazon Bedrock — Enterprise AI Within AWS VPC

Anthropic's Claude claude-sonnet-4-20250514 is now available through Amazon Bedrock, making it accessible within AWS infrastructure with full VPC endpoint support, IAM policy integration and CloudWatch logging. Pricing is $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens — consistent with the direct Anthropic API pricing but with native AWS integration benefits.

Bedrock also supports Provisioned Throughput for Claude models, providing guaranteed tokens-per-minute (TPM) for production applications. This eliminates the rate-limiting risk that affects shared API endpoints. For enterprises processing large volumes of documents, batch inference via Bedrock reduces costs by up to 50% vs real-time inference.

Cost comparison for 1 billion tokens/month (input-heavy workload at 3:1 ratio): Claude claude-sonnet-4-20250514 on Bedrock = $825. Azure OpenAI GPT-4o = $687. Gemini 1.5 Pro on Vertex = $437. Claude claude-sonnet-4-20250514 is more expensive per token but typically requires fewer tokens for equivalent quality — benchmark with your actual prompts before deciding.

TCOIQ Action: For AWS-native organisations, Bedrock Claude is the preferred integration — data stays within your AWS VPC, audit trails are native CloudWatch, and IAM policies control access. Use Bedrock batch inference for document processing pipelines. For real-time chatbots and agents, compare latency (Bedrock adds ~50ms vs direct API) and cost against your volume.