Amazon Bedrock now processes OpenAI Terra and Luna inference requests entirely within India for data residency requirements.
Amazon Bedrock now supports India geographic cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models Terra and Luna. The capability lets customers process inference requests entirely within India, addressing local data processing requirements in financial services, healthcare, and the public sector.
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna both offer a 1-million-token context window and accept text and image input with text output. Amazon Bedrock routes requests across the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions under the India geographic inference profiles in.openai.gpt-5.6-terra and in.openai.gpt-5.6-luna.
For builders and operators, the new profiles allow calls to a single inference profile from either India Region while Amazon Bedrock routes capacity to the other India Region. Billing and quota consumption stay in the source Region, and Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail log entries remain there as well. The design simplifies monitoring and compliance for regulated workloads.
Amazon Bedrock recommends the bedrock-runtime endpoint for new applications because it supports the Bedrock-native InvokeModel and Converse APIs along with the OpenAI-compatible Responses and Chat Completions APIs. Customers should check Regional availability for the latest model status in each India Region and begin testing their workloads from the console or code.
What matters
- Amazon Bedrock added India geographic cross-Region inference profiles for OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna.
- Builders can process long documents and mixed workloads in one request without data leaving India.
- Watch for new applications to adopt the bedrock-runtime endpoint for OpenAI-compatible APIs.
Why it matters
Watch for new applications to adopt the bedrock-runtime endpoint for OpenAI-compatible APIs.
This GenAI News article was prepared in original wording using reporting and materials published by AWS Machine Learning Blog. Source reference: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-india-cross-region-inference-for-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon-bedrock/.
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