What Amazon Bedrock owes you before end-of-life
Amazon Bedrock counts its notice in months. A model entering the Legacy state carries a period of six months or 45 days, stated on the model card itself, after which it reaches end-of-life, is removed from every region, and requests to it fail. Migration will not happen automatically. As of 2026-09-22.
| What the page is asked | What Amazon Bedrock publishes | What that leaves open |
|---|---|---|
| How long the warning lasts | Six months or 45 days per model | Which of the two applies is on the card |
| Where the figure is published | On the model card, before anything is scheduled | So it is readable without a notice arriving |
| What happens at the end | Removed from all regions, and requests fail | No read-only or degraded mode is described |
| Who performs the move | Migration will not happen automatically | The successor is not chosen for you either |
| Can access end sooner | After 15 days of inactivity, once legacy begins | Inactivity is not defined in calls or in volume |
Inclusion rule. Filled from the platform's own model lifecycle page. A period stated for a non-video model is still counted here, because the policy is written for every model the platform serves. Order. The warning first, then what ends it, then what shortens it.
1Months, and a place to read them without being told
The longer figure in this register belongs here, and the more useful property is not its length but where it lives. The period sits on the model card, so a team can read it while choosing a model rather than discovering it in a notice.
That turns the question from how much warning will I get into how much warning does this particular model carry, which is answerable on the day of the decision and therefore actually gets asked.
2Two figures on one policy
Six months and forty-five days are a wide spread for a single commitment, and the page puts the choice on the individual model rather than on a rule. A reader cannot infer from the policy alone which one applies to anything.
So the policy is best read as a promise to state a figure rather than a promise about its size. Both readings are honest; only the second one survives a production asking what its actual runway is.
3The sentence that undoes the runway
Once the legacy period starts, an existing customer may lose access after fifteen days without activity. For anything but continuous use, that is the real deadline, and it is shorter than either published figure by an order of magnitude.
A serial production alternates between heavy generation and weeks of writing, which is exactly the pattern this clause catches. The register keeps that sentence in the ending early column as well, because it belongs to both.
- Legacy periodSix months or 45 days, stated on each model cardwhich is the notice given before end-of-life
- The three states a model can be inActive, Legacy or End-of-Life, readable from the modelLifecycle field
- What happens at end-of-lifeAfter the end-of-life date the model is removed from all AWS Regions and requests made to it fail
- Whether the platform moves you acrossMigration will not happen automatically
- How access can end before the dateOnce the Legacy period begins, existing customers may lose access after 15 days of inactivity
4Sources
Read from the model lifecycle page on docs.aws.amazon.com, 2026-09-22. The whole entry is on Amazon Bedrock, and the column it sits in is on Notice period. Same column, other entries: Gemini API, LTX Studio.