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Claude Code on your own AWS.

One shell script from Secvara gets Claude Code running on your AWS Bedrock account in minutes.

$curl simplebedrock.com/install.sh | bash

Free for small teams and creators  ·  Linux & macOS

Three steps to get started.

Two prerequisites, one command. Here's exactly what each step involves.

1

Request Bedrock model access

Bedrock models are opt-in. You need to request access before inference will work.

  1. Open the AWS Bedrock console
  2. Go to Model access in the left sidebar
  3. Request access to the Anthropic models you want (Sonnet, Haiku, Opus)
  4. Approval is usually instant, but can take up to 24 hours on a new account

Access must be requested per region. This script defaults to us-east-1.

2

Create a dedicated IAM user

Don't use your root account or a broad admin key. Create a scoped credential just for this.

  1. Go to IAM → Users → Create user
  2. Attach the AmazonBedrockFullAccess managed policy
  3. Under Security credentials, create an Access key (type: CLI/local)
  4. Copy the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key — you won't be able to view the secret again
3

Run the installer

Paste the command above. The script installs the AWS CLI and Claude Code if not already present, then prompts for three things:

  1. Access Key ID — starts with AKIA…
  2. Secret Access Key — hidden input
  3. Region — press Enter to accept us-east-1

It writes a [bedrock] profile to ~/.aws/credentials and configures ~/.claude/settings.json. Re-run any time to rotate credentials.

Why move to AWS Bedrock.

AWS Bedrock is quietly one of the most thoughtful things Amazon has built for makers. Not just a model API, but a full security perimeter. Every call goes through IAM. Every request lands in CloudTrail. Your inference traffic stays in your AWS environment, governed by the same controls you already trust. SimpleBedrock wires up Claude Code specifically, but your Bedrock account opens the door to everything.

Anthropic Claude Family

Claude Haiku for speed, Claude Sonnet for the everyday heavy lift, Claude Opus for the hard problems. The Claude 3.5 and Claude 4 generations are available on Bedrock. Same intelligence, inside your security perimeter.

Amazon Nova

Amazon's own frontier model family, built ground-up for Bedrock. Nova Micro, Nova Lite, and Nova Pro cover everything from bulk throughput to nuanced reasoning, running on infrastructure Amazon designed to meet enterprise security requirements from day one.

Open-weight models

Meta Llama, Mistral, and OpenAI's GPT-OSS family (gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, Apache 2.0) are all available on Bedrock. The open-source ethos, without the GPU ops burden.

Custom Model Hosting

Fine-tuned something special? Bedrock's custom model import lets you host your own weights on the same managed infrastructure. Your model, Amazon's datacenters, none of the cluster babysitting.

Why Claude.

Anthropic built Claude with a relentless focus on safety and honesty, and the trajectory is genuinely exciting. This isn't about distrust — it's that Anthropic is new, and real trust is earned over years, across incidents, through transparency. Bedrock lets you have the best of both: Claude's careful reasoning and refusal to just tell you what you want to hear, running inside infrastructure you've already vetted, governed by controls you already own. Not a third-party platform making promises about your data. Your environment, your rules, Claude's mind.

This script is the free part.

SimpleBedrock is Secvara's love letter to makers: a free, open tool to get you started fast. When you're ready to go deeper into secure architecture, IAM hardening, logging pipelines, and production Bedrock deployments, that's what Secvara is here for.

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