Settings fields inferenceBedrockProfile, inferenceBedrockAwsDir, inferenceBedrockAwsCliPath, and inferenceBedrockRegion now have explicit description.short text stating exactly which environment variable each is passed to the helper script as, for example AWS_PROFILE or AWS_CONFIG_FILE.
Names in the bundleAWS_PROFILEAWS_CONFIG_FILE
Documented inclaude-code/amazon-bedrock
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up AWS_PROFILE, on Deploy Claude Desktop on 3P with Amazon Bedrock.
At the start of each Cowork or Code session, the app exchanges the stored token with IAM Identity Center for short-lived AWS credentials scoped to the configured account and permission set, and writes them to the session's AWS credentials …third-party/claude-desktop/bedrock see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up AWS_PROFILE, on Deploy Claude Desktop on 3P with Amazon Bedrock.