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AWS Brings OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna to India
AWS says two OpenAI models, GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna, are now available to organisations in India.
They can be used through a service called Amazon Bedrock.
The AI work can be processed on computer servers located inside India.
This can help organisations that want their data handled locally.
Terra is made for many different business tasks.
Luna is designed to be especially fast and affordable when many requests must be handled.
Businesses could use the models for writing software, analysing data, and automating work.
AWS and OpenAI said the models may be useful for regulated industries and other organisations.
The launch also includes recently reduced prices for both models.
AWS announced the general availability of OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models on Amazon Bedrock in India.
The models use in-country inferencing, with AI processing performed on AWS infrastructure located in India.
Terra is designed for general-purpose enterprise workloads, while Luna targets fast, cost-efficient, high-volume tasks.
Potential applications include software development, data analysis, workflow automation, and sensitive-data processing.
The launch follows price reductions of up to 80% for Luna and 20% for Terra, with the new pricing available on Amazon Bedrock.
- Who
- Amazon Web Services and OpenAI, with comments from AWS India executive Satinder Pal Singh and OpenAI India executive Nitin Bawankule.
- What
- GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna became generally available on Amazon Bedrock in India with in-country inferencing.
- Where
- Amazon Bedrock using AWS infrastructure in India.
- When
- AWS announced the availability on Thursday, August 20; OpenAI launched the GPT-5.6 family on July 9.
- Why
- To provide Indian organisations with local access to advanced AI models for enterprise, regulated, and high-volume workloads.
Key facts
- Models
- GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna
- Platform
- Amazon Bedrock
- Processing location
- AWS infrastructure in India
- Terra purpose
- General-purpose enterprise workloads
- Luna purpose
- Fast, cost-efficient, high-volume and latency-sensitive tasks
- Price reductions
- Up to 80% for Luna and 20% for Terra
- Example applications
- Software development, data analysis, agent workflows, regulated automation, and high-volume customer applications
Quotes
Satinder Pal Singh
Director, Solution Architecture, AWS India and South Asia
“Businesses want models that can help teams write better software, work through complex information, and make higher-quality decisions in the flow of work. For many organisations in India, especially in regulated sectors, local inferencing is a key part of adopting AI with confidence. Making our models available through Amazon Bedrock gives more organisations a practical way to bring that capability into production.”
indianexpress.com
“By bringing OpenAI advanced models to India, we are giving customers the ability to build transformative AI applications with in-country inferencing and governance controls that organisations in India demand – all on the trusted AWS infrastructure they already use.”
indianexpress.com
Sources
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