Problem Statement
Strands provide a simple and streamlined way to create agents with a single line of code
agent = Agent()
Unfortunately, this only works if the code is run in an environment where the AWS_DEFAULT_REGION is a US region, since the default Bedrock model Id which is used by this code is us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0
Proposed Solution
Create two environment variables that can be used to override the standard settings:
STRANDS_BEDROCK_MODEL_ID
STRANDS_BEDROCK_REGION
Use Case
Provide a simple way to run all the sample code in regions other than US an possibly with different models without having to modify the code.
Alternatives Solutions
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Additional Context
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