ANTHROPIC_BEDROCK_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 Amazon Bedrock endpoint URL. Use for custom Amazon Bedrock endpoints or when routing through an [LLM gateway](/docs/en/llm-gateway). See [Amazon Bedrock](/docs/en/amazon-bedrock)
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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v2.1.237System prompt caching now requires a recognised endpoint
If you point Claude at a proxy or custom gateway, the system prompt is no longer cached.
named in this entry
Documentation pages
- Environment variables reference table Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock 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
- Configure server-managed settings mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Enterprise deployment overview mentions it Claude Code CLI
A reference table page is one whose own table defines this name, and it is where the description above came from. A page that mentions it carries the name somewhere in its text and may say nothing about it at all. Every page carrying it.
Names beside it
Every environment variable in the inventory starting anthropic_bedrock, up to twelve of them.
ANTHROPIC_BEDROCK_MANTLE_BASE_URLOverride the Amazon Bedrock Mantle endpoint URL. See [Mantle endpoint](/docs/en/amazon-bedrock#use-the-mantle-endpoint) 2.1.138
ANTHROPIC_BEDROCK_REGION_PREFIXCross-region inference profile prefix (us, eu, apac, jp, au, or global) Claude Code tries first instead of the one derived from the AWS region. Ignored in AWS GovCloud regions. Requires Claude Code v2.1.224 or later. See [Amazon Bedrock](/docs/en/amazon-bedrock#cross-region-inference-profile-prefixes) 2.1.224
ANTHROPIC_BEDROCK_SERVICE_TIERAmazon Bedrock [service tier](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/service-tiers-inference.html) (default, flex, or priority). Sent as the X-Amzn-Bedrock-Service-Tier header. See [Amazon Bedrock](/docs/en/amazon-bedrock#service-tiers) 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.