Removal from every region, and files left alone
The lifecycle page states that after the end-of-life date the model is removed from all regions and requests made to it fail. Material generated earlier is not addressed, because output on this platform is delivered to the caller's own storage rather than held in a product. As of 2026-09-22.
| What the page is asked | What Amazon Bedrock publishes | What that leaves open |
|---|---|---|
| Is disposal of material addressed | Not addressed anywhere on the page | Output goes to storage the customer owns |
| What happens at end-of-life | Removed from all regions, and requests fail | Uniform, so no region is a hiding place |
| Can access end earlier | After 15 days of inactivity in the legacy window | Which is shorter than either published period |
| Is a fallback region described | None, the removal is stated as global | So there is no geographic migration route |
Inclusion rule. Read from the model lifecycle page. Object storage or backup behaviour of other services on the same cloud is not read into this column. Order. The absence first, then how access ends.
1Global removal closes a door people expect to find open
Multi-region platforms train their customers to solve availability problems by moving. Stating that removal happens in every region removes that option explicitly, which is a clearer answer than most retirement pages give.
For a production it means the migration is to another model rather than to another place, and there is no interim arrangement to buy time with.
2Files are not the exposure here; capability is
Because delivery is to the customer's own storage, a retirement takes away the ability to make more and leaves everything already made. That is the good half of this arrangement and it is worth naming as an arrangement rather than as generosity.
The bad half is that a series needing more episodes in the same look has lost the means and kept the evidence. Which is precisely the case where knowing the model behind each file is what makes the problem sizeable at all.
3The inactivity clause reaches the same outcome faster
Access can end after fifteen days without use once the legacy window opens, so a production between blocks can lose the capability well before the published date and with no further notice.
The register keeps that sentence in ending early as well. It belongs to both columns because it changes the runway and it changes the moment regeneration stops being possible.
- 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
- 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 Stored work. Same column, other entries: Gemini API, Wan-AI.