Amazon Bedrock expands to New Zealand, enabling local access to Claude and Nova AI models with cross-region inference capabilities.

Amazon Bedrock now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region (ap-southeast-6) with Auckland-based infrastructure

New Zealand customers can access Anthropic Claude models including Opus 4.5, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5

Amazon Nova 2 Lite models available directly in the region with cross-region inference support

Service supports geographic and global routing options for optimized AI inference performance