Amazon Bedrock API Provider
The Amazon Bedrock API Provider is the Amazon Bedrock Moodle AI subsystem provider, thus enabling the usage of Amazon Bedrock API on AWS and leveraging the multiple AI models it offers, including Anthropic Claude.
by Meeple
Please note: you do need a paid subscription with AWS in order to connect this service with Moodle.
Why Amazon Bedrock?
Amazon Bedrock offers significant advantages for European universities seeking to leverage AI while maintaining strict GDPR compliance. While providers like OpenAI may offer EU data storage options, Bedrock provides a fundamentally different architecture where all data remains within the university's own AWS account and is never transmitted to foundation model providers such as Anthropic, Cohere, or others. This means that sensitive student and research data never leaves the institution's controlled environment, providing an additional layer of data sovereignty that goes beyond geographic storage requirements. Bedrock's enterprise-grade infrastructure offers granular control over data handling, built-in privacy safeguards, comprehensive audit trails, and the ability to implement data retention policies that align with GDPR's "right to be forgotten" requirements. For educational institutions handling sensitive personal data, this contained approach significantly simplifies GDPR compliance by eliminating third-party data sharing concerns entirely, while still providing access to state-of-the-art foundation models through AWS's secure, scalable infrastructure that universities can fully control and audit.
Installation
To install this AI provider you can download the ZIP file and install from Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Install plugins, or you can unzip it in the ai/provider folder.
This provider requires Moodle LMS 4.5, the first version to include the AI subsystem.
You must provide an AWS Access Key and Secret Access Key for an AWS user with the proper permissions to use Amazon Bedrock in your AWS account. Please remind to enable the models from Bedrock configurations > Model access in the selected region.
You need to provide the AWS region and the models to use for every specific Action.
Tested models with version 1.2.0
Amazon Bedrock Foundation models need to be enabled from Bedrock console.
We tested US and EU regions that provide models in Amazon Bedrock, including the latest Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Amazon Nova Canvas:
- eu-west-1
- eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6 (default)
- eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-v1:0
- eu.anthropic.claude-haiku-4-5-20251001-v1:0
- eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0
- eu.anthropic.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0
- amazon.nova-canvas-v1:0 (Image)
- eu-central-1
- eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
- eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-v1:0
- eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0
- eu.anthropic.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0
- eu-west-3
- eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
- eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-v1:0
- eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0
- eu.anthropic.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0
- us-east-1
- us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
- us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-v1:0
- us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0
- us.anthropic.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0
- us.anthropic.claude-3-5-haiku-20241022-v1:0
- amazon.nova-canvas-v1:0 (Image)
- us-west-2
- us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
- us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-v1:0
- us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0
- us.anthropic.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0
- anthropic.claude-3-5-haiku-20241022-v1:0
Note: models starting with us. or eu. use a cross-region inference to increase throughput and improve resiliency by routing the model's requests across multiple AWS Regions during peak utilization bursts. In particular, with respect to GDPR compliance, eu. cross-region inference routes requests to European regions.
Note: text generation and summarisation actions use a default max_tokens of 2048. This can be raised up to 16,384 for Claude Sonnet 4.x models if longer responses are needed (requires editing the source).
License
2025 Meeple srl https://www.meeplesrl.it
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
