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OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

GAVerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. The latest and most capable model from OpenAI to date, GPT-6 Astra brings deeper reasoning and judgment, professional-quality writing and design, and advanced computer and browser use to demanding business workflows.

Topics: AI agents, LLMs, Security, Pricing, Observability

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DateRelease
Sep 9Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base adds APIs and console support for debugging document-level access control
Update
Sep 9Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Confluence Data Center as a native data source connector
Update
Sep 11Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content with TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0
Update
Sep 18Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
GA
Sep 18The new AgentCore Runtime is now available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Sep 22OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
GA
Sep 22Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS GovCloud (US)
Update
Sep 22Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS
Update

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