Author: Zohreh Norouzi

In this post, we walk through how to get started with MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock, including the capabilities supported by these models, the service tiers available, how on-demand inference scales to handle your workloads, and the different APIs you can use to access them. Using these models, customers can build agentic applications, long-context document analysis pipelines, and software engineering workflows, all backed by the security and operational guarantees of AWS.

We’re excited to introduce US-based frontier open-weight models in AWS GovCloud (US). With this release, Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI’s open-weight GPT OSS models (120B and 20B) and NVIDIA Nemotron (Nano 9B v2, Nano 12B v2, Nano 30B, Super 120B) models. In this post, we cover these models and their capabilities, the inference options for data residency, the available service tiers and how to get started.

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

Today, we’re announcing two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon Bedrock, TimeToFirstToken and EstimatedTPMQuotaUsage. In this post, we cover how these work and how to set alarms, establish baselines, and proactively manage capacity using them.

In this post, we explore the security considerations and best practices for implementing Amazon Bedrock cross-Region inference profiles. Whether you’re building a generative AI application or need to meet specific regional compliance requirements, this guide will help you understand the secure architecture of Amazon Bedrock CRIS and how to properly configure your implementation.