Dev can't run Claude Opus in the EU: Bedrock hits instant 429 quota, Vertex needs service accounts and enablement forms
Chicken_Visual · reddit · 2026-09-05
A developer needing EU-resident inference for data-protection reasons reports being blocked on both official routes to Claude Opus in Europe:
- AWS Bedrock, Frankfurt (eu-central-1): a tiny test request immediately returned a 429 "Too many tokens per day" error, apparently a very low default quota on a fresh account.
- Google Vertex AI (now "Agent Platform"): Claude models require a service account (OAuth2/ADC) rather than a plain API key — which works fine for Gemini — plus an enablement form asking about industry and estimated token volume, which the author suspects is the real bottleneck.
The poster asks whether anyone has actually run Claude/Opus via Vertex or Bedrock in EU regions, how long enablement took, and whether there's a cleaner EU-hosting path with Anthropic models.
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