Accessing Amazon Bedrock Models Across Regions

[markramrattan]

Environment information

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AWS environment variables:
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Describe the feature

I would like to access Amazon Bedrock Gen A.I. models across regions using Amplify Gen 2.

My project is located in eu-west-1. There are only 12 models available in eu-west-1. For context there are 34 Models available in us-east-1 (where all the magic happens)

Use case

My current application is deployed in eu-west-1(Ireland). However the models i'd like to use are available in us-east-1(N. Virginia).

I can't access models like Stability A.I. - SDXL 1.0 in eu-west-1. I'd like to provide users with better image generation (within my eu-west-1 project).

The docs show this guide: https://docs.amplify.aws/nextjs/build-a-backend/data/custom-business-logic/connect-bedrock/ If your project is located not in us-east-1 it fails to use bedrock models cross regions. Would be good to have this cross region feature in AWS Amplify Gen2 with updated docs that show how to integrate cross-region inference.

[ykethan]

Hey,👋 thanks for raising this! I'm going to transfer this over to our documentation repository for content and documentation updates.

[ykethan]

@markramrattan you should be able to switch the region on the bedrock client to call a model in a different region.

const client = new BedrockRuntimeClient({
  region: "us-east-1",
});

[markramrattan]

@markramrattan you should be able to switch the region on the bedrock client to call a model in a different region.

const client = new BedrockRuntimeClient({
  region: "us-east-1",
});

I've added the region now via the bedrock client. Though the lambda function generated is in eu-west-1 (as the project is located there) and i'm getting the same errors. Will try some more debugging tomorrow, any other ideas on how to get it to work is appreciated.

[ykethan]

Hey @markramrattan, the issue doesnt appear to be a region issue as you would receive a permissions error. The error seems to be from the code in the handler I would suggest adding a console logs and verifying the cloudwatch logs to verify if the logs are being printed.

[markramrattan]

Hey @markramrattan, the issue doesnt appear to be a region issue as you would receive a permissions error. The error seems to be from the code in the handler I would suggest adding a console logs and verifying the cloudwatch logs to verify if the logs are being printed.

Hey, i'll try that, though i'm using / following the same code from the guide: https://docs.amplify.aws/nextjs/build-a-backend/data/custom-business-logic/connect-bedrock/

[pierresisson]

You should add Inference example in the doc

[ykethan]

@markramrattan Amplify AI kit has been recently released providing support your AI use cases: https://docs.amplify.aws/react/ai/

@pierresisson the cross region inference example is currently being tracked on https://github.com/aws-amplify/docs/issues/8121. refer to the comment https://github.com/aws-amplify/docs/issues/8121#issuecomment-2494375015 providing an example.

closing this issue, do open a issue on Amplify backend repository if you are facing any issues