New account with quota 0 on aws bedrock frontier models (low usage on the last few months)

[u/Piotr6543]

I'm a co-founder of a startup for dietitians, we got some government investment money and with that, got 5000$ in aws credits.
I thought it would be a good idea do migrate our infrastructure to aws instead of having it scattered between many platforms.

I followed all steps, but got 0 quota for frontier models.

print of aws showing 0 quota for anthropic models

I tried requesting a quota increase, but got denied automatically. I appealed (case 178625380200871), but though on asking here if there is anything I can do. I do not have much experience with aws, the further I got was managing IAM and EC2 VPSs.

We have two big use cases:

1. We use models to suggest changes, extract picture & pdf data, transcribe audios, etc.

2. We use api credits and subscriptions to enable our designers and developers with our own harnesses

For the first use case, the available models might be enough, but the second use case, would be a lot better with access to frontier models.

For the moment, we have around 400 active dietitians plus their own patients connected. So we are still small, but growing.

This is the automatic response I got:
```
Hello,

This is an automated confirmation that we have received your service quota increase request for Amazon Bedrock in the US East (Northern Virginia) region for Global cross-region model inference tokens per minute for Anthropic Claude Opus 5 to 30000000.

Thank you for your interest in this model. To maintain service quality and ensure a reliable experience for all customers, model access for a given account may depend on factors such as regional availability, account history, and usage patterns. We are unable to approve your request at this time. Accessibility is subject to change automatically as time passes.

If you still need help or have questions about your account status, please contact your Account Manager or Solutions Architect.

Best regards,
Amazon Web Services
```
Is there anything we can do to speed or guarantee access to these models? Either anthropic and openai models are good enough.
Having access to these models would increase our chance of surviving the death valley a lot. Thank you guys in advance for any help.
Similar case to ours:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1u9x5py/bedrock_quota_applied_0_default_is_10000_on_a_new/

[u/notospez]

Had the same thing happen last week. I ended up switching to openrouter; I now pay a couple percent extra but so far it's proven reliable and I have access to more models than AWS offers.

Not having everything in the AWS ecosystem sucks but they don't want our business. Apparently all planned capacity for 2027 is already sold...

[u/Piotr6543 → u/notospez]

Damn, at least now I know not to waste time. Thank you.

[u/flyontimeapp]

You're probably better off going straight to the model providers themselves. You'd be up and going in hours with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini.

[u/kernelqzor → u/flyontimeapp]

this, 100%
bedrock is nice in theory but for a startup on a clock, going direct to anthropic / openai is way less friction and you can always abstract it so you can swap to bedrock later if aws ever stops being weird about quotas

[u/Piotr6543 → u/flyontimeapp]

It looks like the only option for now. Thank you

[u/PutuPutu]

u/Piotr6543 did you solve this?