{"slug": "claude-sonnet-4-apac-deprecated", "title": "Claude Sonnet 4 (APAC) deprecated", "summary": "Amazon has deprecated the APAC-hosted version of Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 model, identified as apac.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0, which was released on 2025-05-22 and now carries no announced retirement date. The model supports text, image, and PDF input with a 200k context window and 64k maximum output. The deprecation affects developers whose code calls the APAC endpoint, and the provider announcement is linked via models.dev.", "body_md": "AM◑ Deprecating\n\n# Claude Sonnet 4 (APAC)\n\nAmazon · apac.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0\n\nReleased2025-05-22\n\nRetiresno announced date\n\nclaude-sonnettext+image+pdf200k context64k max out\n\nalso matches: \n\n`apac.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0`` amazon/apac.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0`\n[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/amazon-bedrock/apac.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0)\n\nDoes your code call Claude Sonnet 4 (APAC)?\n\n$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash\n\nThen `mm status` in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.\n\n[Get alerted before it retires →](https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-sonnet-4-apac-deprecated", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/amazon/amazon/apac.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1%3A0", "published_at": "2026-09-23 00:00:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-23 00:52:48.029243+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Amazon", "Anthropic", "Claude Sonnet 4", "Amazon Bedrock", "models.dev", "llmstatus.ai"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-sonnet-4-apac-deprecated", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-sonnet-4-apac-deprecated.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-sonnet-4-apac-deprecated.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-sonnet-4-apac-deprecated.jsonld"}}