Bedrock Explorer — notes https://aws-bedrock-explorer.com/blog Findings from the Amazon Bedrock catalogue: data residency, regional price spread and how cross-region inference actually behaves. en Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:21:54 GMT 1440 Your Bedrock data residency is probably not what you think https://aws-bedrock-explorer.com/blog/bedrock-data-residency-illusion https://aws-bedrock-explorer.com/blog/bedrock-data-residency-illusion A model available in your region is not a model that runs in your region. On Amazon Bedrock those are different facts, and only one of them appears in the console. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dorian Richard residency compliance inference profiles The same Bedrock model can cost twice as much in another region https://aws-bedrock-explorer.com/blog/bedrock-regional-price-gap https://aws-bedrock-explorer.com/blog/bedrock-regional-price-gap AWS publishes Bedrock prices one region at a time, which is an effective way to hide that they are not the same price. They are not close. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dorian Richard pricing regions cost Inference profiles, decoded: what us., eu. and global. actually do https://aws-bedrock-explorer.com/blog/bedrock-inference-profiles-decoded https://aws-bedrock-explorer.com/blog/bedrock-inference-profiles-decoded The prefix on a Bedrock model ID decides where your prompt is processed, what it costs, and whether the call works at all. Here is what each one means. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dorian Richard inference profiles architecture residency