Amazon Bedrock introduced Canada cross-Region inference (CRIS) for Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5, restricting inference processing to Canadian AWS Regions (ca-central-1 and ca-west-1). This supports organizations with stringent federal and provincial data residency requirements, including financial services, healthcare, and public sectors.
While US and global CRIS remain options offering broader regional routing and cost savings, Canada CRIS is recommended when inference data must not leave Canadian boundaries. This inference profile has limited model selection, which may affect the availability of future model versions. The update helps regulated customers maintain compliance while using advanced AI models hosted on Bedrock.
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Amazon Bedrock now offers Canada cross-Region inference for Claude Haiku 5.5 ↗Source published 2026-10-27. 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.