ANTHROPIC_AWS_BASE_URL
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.138, including the newest one read.
What it is
Override the [Claude Platform on AWS](/docs/en/claude-platform-on-aws) endpoint URL. Use for custom regions or when routing through an [LLM gateway](/docs/en/llm-gateway). Defaults to https://aws-external-anthropic.{region}.api.aws. Claude Code resolves the region with the [same precedence as on Amazon Bedrock](/docs/en/amazon-bedrock#3-configure-claude-code)
Anthropic's own wording. Read off Environment variables, captured 2026-08-28.
Presence across releases
| Releases | Reading | Declared type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1.245 – 2.1.250 5 releases | never mined | — | — |
| 2.1.160 – 2.1.243 75 releases | in the build | str | — |
| 2.1.138 – 2.1.159 20 releases | in the build | — | — |
A row reading never mined is a release with no archived bundle behind it. Nothing was read out of it, so nothing here says whether the name was in it. A declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Changelog entries naming it
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v2.1.228Bedrock no longer fails when neither a region nor a base URL is set
Bedrock no longer refuses to start when no region or base URL is configured.
named in this entry
Documentation pages
- Environment variables reference table Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code on Claude Platform on AWS mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Error reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Connect Claude Code to an LLM gateway mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Gateway protocol reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Roll out an LLM gateway for your organization mentions it Claude Code CLI
- How Claude Code uses prompt caching mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Enterprise deployment overview mentions it Claude Code CLI
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Names beside it
Every environment variable in the inventory starting anthropic_aws, up to twelve of them.
ANTHROPIC_AWS_API_KEYWorkspace API key for [Claude Platform on AWS](/docs/en/claude-platform-on-aws), generated in the AWS Console. Sent as x-api-key and takes precedence over AWS SigV4 2.1.138
ANTHROPIC_AWS_WORKSPACE_IDRequired for [Claude Platform on AWS](/docs/en/claude-platform-on-aws). Sent on every request as the anthropic-workspace-id header 2.1.138
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the environment variable does. All environment variables.