# AWS opens Bedrock access to GPT-5.6 models from Australia

_Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM EDT · AI, Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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AWS says teams using its Sydney and Melbourne regions can now invoke OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna through Amazon Bedrock global cross-Region inference. Applications call a local Bedrock Runtime endpoint while AWS routes processing to a supported commercial region, removing the need for customers to manage destination-region routing. The models accept text and image inputs, generate text, and support context windows up to 1 million tokens. Bedrock supports Responses, Chat Completions and Converse APIs for the models.

## Sources

- [AWS Machine Learning Blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/accessing-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon-bedrock-from-australia-with-global-cross-region-inference/)

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