# Amazon — Access OpenAI GPT models on Amazon Bedrock from Canada with cross-Region inference

- Company: Amazon (amazon.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-20T16:42:53+00:00
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/access-openai-gpt-models-on-amazon-bedrock-from-canada-with-cross-region-inference/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/25302-access-openai-gpt-models-on-amazon-bedrock-from-canada-with-cross-region
- Subject: Bedrock / Nova
- Models affected: OpenAI GPT-6.1, OpenAI GPT-6, GPT-5.6, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna
- Context window: 1-million-token context window

Amazon Bedrock customers in Canada can now reach OpenAI's GPT-5.6, GPT-6 and GPT-6.1 models through cross-Region inference, which routes requests from a Canadian source Region to other Regions for processing. The models are available from the Canada (Central) and Canada West (Calgary) Regions, and inference stays within North America under the US geographic profile. Cross-Region inference is a capacity mechanism: the application calls the Bedrock Runtime endpoint in its own Region and Bedrock routes the request to a supported destination Region, drawing on a broader capacity pool to sustain throughput during demand spikes. The models accept text and image inputs, return text, and support a 1-million-token context window, reasoning mode, tool calling and prompt caching. They can be called through the OpenAI Responses API, the OpenAI Chat Completions API and the Amazon Bedrock Converse API on the bedrock-runtime endpoint. Two profile types are offered from Canada: the US geographic profile, which keeps processing in Canada and the US, and the global profile, which routes to supported commercial AWS Regions where the model is deployed. The global profile for the GPT-5.6 models is available only from ca-central-1, so ca-west-1 users must use the US geographic profile for those models.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/access-openai-gpt-models-on-amazon-bedrock-from-canada-with-cross-region-inference/:

> OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, and Luna), GPT-6 (Astra, Sol, and Luna), and GPT-6.1 Sol are available from the Canada (Central) and Canada West (Calgary) Regions. Inference is processed in North America, with data-residency controls described later in this post.

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