Getting the Most Out of Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock

There are a few ways to run Claude Code today, and the right choice depends on what matters most to your team. This post covers the trade-offs between Anthropic direct, Amazon Bedrock, and a gateway approach I've been building as an open-source project. Anthropic vs Bedrock: the real decision Before getting into gateways, it's worth understanding why teams choose Bedrock over Anthropic's API in the first place, since it's not just about price. Data sovereignty. With Bedrock, all your data, logs, and metrics live inside your AWS account. You control retention, encryption, and access. Your prompts and responses don't leave your infrastructure boundary. For regulated industries or companies with strict data handling policies, this is often the deciding factor. Region and routing control. You pick the AWS region. You control which accounts the traffic flows through. If you need inference to stay in eu-west-1 or ap-southeast-2, which is a Bedrock configuration you can self-service. Existing