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SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) now supports SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6, designed for coding and agentic tasks with a 500k context window

Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) now includes SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6, the latest flagship model built for long-running agents and complex interactive and visual tasks. It features a 500k context window and configurable reasoning levels (low, medium, high, xhigh). The model runs on the bedrock-runtime endpoint, supporting Responses, Chat Completions, and Converse APIs, and can scale across AWS GovCloud (US) Regions with cross-Region inference routing. It is also available via the bedrock-mantle endpoint in AWS GovCloud (US-East).

Why it matters

This update affects developers and enterprises that require advanced AI models within the secure and compliant AWS GovCloud (US) environment

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