Amazon Bedrock Adds Cross-Region Access to OpenAI GPT Models from Canada
- Organizations in the Canada (Central) and Canada West (Calgary) Regions can access OpenAI GPT-5.6, GPT-6, and GPT-6.1 models through Amazon Bedrock cross-Region inference.
- The models are available through the OpenAI Responses API, OpenAI Chat Completions API, and Amazon Bedrock Converse API.
- The US geographic profile routes requests to Canada and the US, while the global profile can draw on supported commercial AWS Regions where a model is deployed.
- Bedrock automatically caches eligible prompt prefixes of at least 1,024 tokens; subsequent reads of cached tokens receive discounted pricing and do not count toward tokens-per-minute quota.
Our take
The profile choice affects both the routing boundary and the available capacity pool: US geographic is the better fit for workloads that must remain in North America, while global offers a wider pool. Data at rest remains in the source Region, but content flagged by abuse classifiers may be retained in the destination Region for up to 30 days, so teams should include that exception in compliance reviews.
Sources
- Access OpenAI GPT models on Amazon Bedrock from Canada with cross-Region inference · AWS Machine Learning
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