Amazon Bedrock Adds Latest Open-Weight AI Models in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

Amazon Bedrock enhances generative AI capabilities with support for new large foundation models from multiple providers in its Sydney data center.

By Eva Hart · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-02-12 · 1 min read

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Amazon Bedrock, a managed service providing enterprise-grade access to foundation AI models, expanded offerings in Asia Pacific (Sydney) by adding new open-weight models from providers including DeepSeek, Google, Mistral, Nvidia, and OpenAI. This supports both Bedrock-runtime and Bedrock-mantle endpoints.

Bedrock-mantle leverages Project Mantle, a scalable distributed inference engine that delivers OpenAI-compatible APIs, enabling developers in Sydney to build and scale generative AI apps with access to a broad and current selection of foundational models locally hosted.

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Amazon Bedrock adds support for the latest open-weight models in Asia Pacific (Sydney) ↗

Source published 2026-02-12. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.