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Cloud region environment variables are validated before use

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Cloud Sessions

A malformed cloud region in your environment is now ignored in favour of the default.

What

Region values read from the environment must now look like a region (/^[a-z]{2,}(?:-[a-z0-9]+){0,4}$/i); anything else is treated as unset and the default is used instead of a malformed value being sent to the endpoint.

Details
  • Applies to AWS_REGION, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION, the region resolved from the AWS config file, ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL_AWS_REGION and CLOUD_ML_REGION.
  • CLOUD_ML_REGION was previously used verbatim with a plain fallback to us-east5 and no check at all.
Evidence

CLOUD_ML_REGION

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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