AWS Bedrock brings OpenAI GPT-5.6 cross-Region inference to Australia with full setup guide
AWS ML Blog · rss · 2026-09-03
Australian teams can now invoke OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) via Amazon Bedrock global cross-Region inference, with Sydney and Melbourne as source Regions routing to supported commercial Regions automatically.
All three models take text and image inputs, support up to 1M token context: Sol targets heavy reasoning/coding/agentic workloads, Terra balances performance and cost, and Luna offers fast, cheap inference.
The post walks through:
- Verifying active global.openai.gpt-5.6- inference profiles via AWS CLI or console
- Calling the Responses API and Chat Completions API through the /openai/v1 path with the OpenAI SDK, authenticating via SigV4 or short-term inference API keys generated by aws-bedrock-token-generator (no static keys needed)
- Using the Converse API via AWS SDKs, including streaming
- Prompt caching on GPT-5.6, with implicit caching enabled by default, to cut inference costs
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