Bedrock models that stay in South Korea
Inference must execute inside South Korea. Of the 28 models the matrix shows as available here, 5 are served without the request leaving, and 23 are not.
Regions counted: Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2).
What catches people here
Availability in a South Korea region does not mean the call stays there. Check the route column: a model reachable only through a cross-region profile is processed wherever that profile has capacity.
Stays in region 5
Callable on-demand with the bare model ID. The request is served by the region you addressed, and nothing crosses a border.
| Model | Call this ID | Input /1M |
|---|---|---|
| Titan Text Embeddings V2 | amazon.titan-embed-text-v2:0 | — |
| Claude 3 Haiku other route leaves | anthropic.claude-3-haiku-20240307-v1:0 | — |
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet other route leaves | anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620-v1:0 | — |
| Marengo Embed 3.0 | twelvelabs.marengo-embed-3-0-v1:0 | — |
| Pegasus v1.2 other route leaves | twelvelabs.pegasus-1-2-v1:0 | — |
This holds for as long as you address the bare model ID. Swapping it for a
global. or cross-region profile ID is a one-word change
that moves the inference, and the models tagged
other route leaves are
the ones where that alternative exists.
Leaves the jurisdiction 7
The matrix shows this model as available here. It is only reachable through a profile that declares destinations outside the jurisdiction, so a share of your traffic is processed there.
| Model | Processed in |
|---|---|
| Nova Lite Amazon | Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Australia, Indonesia |
| Nova Micro Amazon | Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Australia, Indonesia |
| Nova Pro Amazon | Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Australia, Indonesia |
| Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic | Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Australia |
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2 Anthropic | Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Australia |
| Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic | Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Australia, Indonesia |
| Marengo Embed v2.7 TwelveLabs | Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Australia, Indonesia |
Destination not bounded 16
The only route is a global profile. AWS does not publish a closed destination list for it, so no residency claim can be made either way — this is unverifiable, not merely non-compliant.
| Model | Processed in |
|---|---|
| Nova 2 Lite Amazon | not published |
| Claude Fable 5 Anthropic | not published |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic | not published |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic | not published |
| Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic | not published |
| Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic | not published |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic | not published |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic | not published |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic | not published |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic | not published |
| Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic | not published |
| Embed v4 Cohere | not published |
| GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI | not published |
| GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI | not published |
| GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI | not published |
| Grok 4.6 xAI | not published |
Not offered here 88
Not available in any region of this jurisdiction, by any route.
List the 88 models
Jamba 1.5 Large , Jamba 1.5 Mini , Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings , Nova 2 Sonic , Nova Canvas , Nova Premier , Nova Reel , Nova Reel , Nova Sonic , Rerank 1.0 , Titan Embeddings G1 - Text , Titan Multimodal Embeddings G1 , Titan Text Embeddings v2 , Claude 3.7 Sonnet , Claude Opus 4.1 , Embed English , Embed Multilingual , Rerank 3.5 , DeepSeek V3.2 , DeepSeek-R1 , DeepSeek-V3.1 , Gemma 3 12B IT , Gemma 3 27B PT , Gemma 3 4B IT , Ray v2 , Llama 3 70B Instruct , Llama 3 8B Instruct , Llama 3.1 70B Instruct , Llama 3.1 8B Instruct , Llama 3.3 70B Instruct , Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct , Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct , MiniMax M2 , MiniMax M2.1 , MiniMax M2.5 , Devstral 2 123B , Magistral Small 2509 , Ministral 14B 3.0 , Ministral 3 8B , Ministral 3B , Mistral 7B Instruct , Mistral Large (24.02) , Mistral Large (24.07) , Mistral Large 3 , Mistral Small (24.02) , Mixtral 8x7B Instruct , Pixtral Large (25.02) , Voxtral Mini 3B 2507 , Voxtral Small 24B 2507 , Kimi K2 Thinking , Kimi K2.5 , Nemotron Nano 3 30B , NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B , NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL BF16 , NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B v2 , GPT OSS Safeguard 120B , GPT OSS Safeguard 20B , gpt-oss-120b , gpt-oss-20b , Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 , Qwen3 32B (dense) , Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct , Qwen3 Coder Next , Qwen3 Next 80B A3B , Qwen3 VL 235B A22B , Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct , Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large , Stable Image Conservative Upscale , Stable Image Control Sketch , Stable Image Control Structure , Stable Image Core 1.0 , Stable Image Creative Upscale , Stable Image Erase Object , Stable Image Fast Upscale , Stable Image Inpaint , Stable Image Outpaint , Stable Image Remove Background , Stable Image Search and Recolor , Stable Image Search and Replace , Stable Image Style Guide , Stable Image Style Transfer , Stable Image Ultra 1.0 , Palmyra X4 , Palmyra X5 , Writer Palmyra Vision 7B , GLM 4.7 , GLM 4.7 Flash , GLM 5
Questions
How many Bedrock models keep data in South Korea?
5 of the 28 models available in South Korea are served without the request leaving it. The remaining 23 are reachable only through cross-region inference profiles whose declared destinations sit elsewhere, or through a global profile with no published destination list.
Does availability in South Korea mean the model runs there?
No. A model reachable only through a cross-region inference profile is served by whichever region in that profile's scope has capacity. The API call succeeds either way, so availability and residency have to be checked separately — that is what the route column on this page is for.
What exactly is being checked here?
Two facts from the AWS Bedrock APIs, rebuilt daily: whether the bare model ID is callable on-demand in a region of this jurisdiction, and which regions each inference profile declares as destinations. The mapping from region to country is maintained by hand. This describes where inference executes; it is not legal advice and does not cover logs, retention or where your application tier runs.