# Amazon — Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference

- Company: Amazon (amazon.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-02T21:22:05+00:00
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/accessing-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon-bedrock-from-australia-with-global-cross-region-inference/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7444-accessing-openai-models-on-amazon-bedrock-from-australia-with-global-cross
- Subject: Bedrock / Nova
- Models affected: GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna
- Context window: up to 1 million tokens

Amazon announced that Australian teams can now access OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna through Amazon Bedrock with global cross-Region inference from Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Regions. The models support text and image inputs, generate text, and have context windows of up to 1 million tokens.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/accessing-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon-bedrock-from-australia-with-global-cross-region-inference/:

> Amazon Bedrock offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol , Terra , and Luna with global cross-Region inference from both Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Regions in Australia.

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