Run Generative AI inference with Amazon Bedrock in Asia Pacific (New Zealand)

Kia ora!

Customers in New Zealand have been asking for access to foundation models (FMs) on Amazon Bedrock from their local AWS Region.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon Bedrock is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region (ap-southeast-6). Customers in New Zealand can now access Anthropic Claude models (Claude Opus 4.5, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5) and Amazon (Nova 2 Lite) models directly in the Auckland Region with cross region inference.

In this post, we explore how cross-Region inference works from the New Zealand Region, the models available through geographic and global routing, and how to get started with your first API call. We cover three key areas:

• How Amazon Bedrock in ap-southeast-6 uses cross-Region inference to give you access to FMs, with the ANZ geographic routing configuration across Auckland, Sydney, and Melbourne
• Supported models, IAM ...