OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

Published
August 24, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/openai-gpt-terra-luna-govcloud/

AWS Release Notes

GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). These models bring advanced capabilities to Bedrock's high-performance inference engine, offering balanced performance (Terra) and fast, cost-efficient inference (Luna).

Key features include:

  • Autonomous coding agents
  • Long-horizon genomics and biology analyses
  • Advanced cybersecurity research
  • Prompt caching with explicit cache breakpoints

Both models support 1 million token context windows, enabling processing of full codebases, lengthy documents, and multi-turn agent histories in a single request.

What to do

Source: AWS release notes




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