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Amazon Bedrock expands API support and introduces Cross-Region Inferencing for OpenAI models in AWS GovCloud (US)

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AWS·Oct 30, 2026, 08:43 PMFeatureAI-assisted summary

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Added support for OpenAI GPT-5.6 (Terra & Luna) models on the bedrock-runtime endpoint in AWS GovCloud (US) with Responses, Converse, and Chat Completions APIs.
Introduced Cross-Region Inference in GovCloud (US) for OpenAI models, automatically routing requests across both GovCloud regions for higher throughput, redundancy, and data‑sovereignty compliance.
Model usage is now logged in Bedrock invocation logs, CloudWatch metrics, and cost reports, and the new API support is available in all regions offering OpenAI models.

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