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Anthropic Brings Local Data Processing for Claude Users in India

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Anthropic is strengthening its foothold in India with a move that could ease one of the biggest hurdles businesses face when adopting AI – data residency. The company has confirmed that Claude will soon support in-country inference in India through Amazon Bedrock, meaning AI requests from Indian users will be processed on servers located within the country rather than being routed overseas.

According to Anthropic, India has emerged as one of Claude’s largest markets globally, with a growing base of developers and enterprises relying on the model for increasingly complex use cases. Among the most frequent asks from Indian organisations has been local access to Claude, particularly as companies navigate tightening rules around how customer data is handled.

Local processing aimed at easing compliance concerns

This new setup will run through Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s platform for building and deploying generative AI tools. Once live, customers accessing Claude through the India endpoint will have their requests handled entirely on domestic infrastructure, keeping data from leaving the country.

The update carries particular weight for heavily regulated industries like banking, insurance, telecom and government, where internal compliance policies often restrict how and where customer data can be processed. Anthropic believes that with local inference in place, such organisations will feel more confident moving past pilot projects and integrating Claude into core, business-critical workflows.

To further support enterprise adoption, Claude deployments Bedrock will come with built-in audit trails and access control features, giving organisations the governance tools needed to meet compliance standards before rolling out applications at scale.

Wide adoption already underway across Indian businesses

Anthropic also used the announcement to highlight just how deeply Claude has already been integrated across Indian industries. Axis Bank is using the model to boost engineering efficiency, while NPCI is building its agentic AI platform, AiNxt, around Claude. IndusInd Bank is developing an AI-driven enterprise knowledge system, and Godrej Industries has adopted Claude for internal software development, business analysis, and broader knowledge work.

The country’s major IT services firms are scaling up their usage too. TCS is rolling out Claude access to 50,000 employees, Infosys is weaving it into its Topaz AI platform while also setting up a dedicated Anthropic Centre of Excellence, and Cognizant, LTIMindtree and LTTS are embedding the model into enterprise solutions built for clients across sectors.

Consumer-facing platforms are getting in on it as well. Swiggy has integrated Claude into parts of its service ecosystem, Instamart is using it to help shoppers browse over 40,000 products through natural language search, and Invideo depends on Claude to support content creators spread across 190 countries.

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