Amazon Bedrock Boosts Default Quotas for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in AWS GovCloud

Amazon Bedrock increased usage limits for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5, enhancing AI capacity for regulated US government cloud environments.

By Amelia Ross · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-02-12 · 1 min read

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Retrospective edition: 2026-02-12. Source published: 2026-02-12. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

In AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West), Amazon Bedrock raised default quotas for Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 large language model to 5 million tokens and 1,000 requests per minute, matching quota levels in commercial regions. This scalability improvement suits high-volume, regulated workloads.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 excels at complex agent construction, coding tasks, and extended context scenarios, balancing speed and cost-efficiency. The higher quotas enable developers in sensitive environments to deploy AI solutions with greater throughput and reliability.

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Amazon Bedrock increases default quotas for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 model in AWS GovCloud (US) ↗

Source published 2026-02-12. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.