Amazon Web Services has extended global cross-region inference for all three GPT-6 models to five Asia-Pacific source regions on Amazon Bedrock — but before development teams in four of those markets can make a single API call, they face an activation step that catches many AWS users off guard: manually enabling their AWS accounts for opt-in regions.
GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now callable from Singapore, Jakarta (Indonesia), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Bangkok (Thailand), and Taipei (Taiwan). GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s flagship, is limited to Singapore as a source region. The rollout, announced October 12 on the AWS Machine Learning Blog, marks the most significant geographic expansion of frontier OpenAI model access in the APAC region to date.
Of the five markets, only Singapore (ap-southeast-1) is active by default in new and existing AWS accounts. Jakarta (ap-southeast-3), Malaysia (ap-southeast-5), Thailand (ap-southeast-7), and Taipei (ap-east-2) are opt-in regions — a standard…
