Using AI-VERDE with AWS Bedrock

AWS Bedrock is Amazon's fully managed service for accessing foundation models from leading AI providers. AI-VERDE allows users to use AWS Bedrock-provided Anthropic Claude models with coding agents such as Claude Code and third-party AI applications.

Note

Currently, the subsequent instructions focus on using Anthropic Claude models from AWS Bedrock. As other models are provided, the instructions will be updated.

Prerequisites

Before connecting AI-VERDE to AI applications, you will need:

• An AI-VERDE API key — sign in at chat.cyverse.ai, open your course or team details, and copy the key from the API Key tab. See Obtaining your AI-VERDE API Key for step-by-step instructions.
• The AI-VERDE base URL: https://api.cyverse.ai/ (or the URL shown in your course details).

How It Works

AI-VERDE acts as a proxy between your application and the underlying model. When you send a request to the AI-VERDE endpoint, AI-VERDE authenticates it against your team or course budget, applies any configured guardrails, then forwards the request to the appropriate model — which may be hosted on AWS Bedrock. This means you interact with a single, consistent OpenAI-compatible endpoint regardless of which cloud provider is serving the model.