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

This article announces Amazon Bedrock's availability in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region (ap-southeast-6), enabling local access to generative AI inference with cross-Region capabilities.

• Auckland now serves as a source Region for cross-Region inference on Amazon Bedrock
• AU geographic cross-Region inference routes requests within Auckland, Sydney, and Melbourne
• Global cross-Region inference provides access to all supported commercial AWS Regions worldwide
• Supported models include Anthropic Claude (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) and Amazon Nova 2 Lite
• Cross-Region inference keeps data on AWS network with end-to-end encryption in transit
• All requests logged in CloudTrail in source Region; data at rest remains in source Region
• IAM policies require permissions for inference profiles and foundation models in destination Regions
• Service quotas managed at source Region level; token burndown rates vary by model
• Existing Australian routing between Sydney and Melbourne remains unchanged

New Zealand customers can now run generative AI inference locally with geographic data residency options or global throughput optimization.