In a nutshell: CRIS on Amazon Bedrock guarantees EU data storage and processing while delivering higher availability and lower latency through automatic routing across multiple EU regions.
AWS has expanded Cross-Region Inference (CRIS) on Amazon Bedrock, enabling European enterprises to leverage AI models across multiple EU regions without violating GDPR requirements. The system automatically routes requests within predefined geographic boundaries.
Cross-Region Inference is a managed service in Amazon Bedrock that automatically routes requests for AI model inference between supported AWS regions. AWS has implemented two variants: global profiles that utilize all commercial AWS regions worldwide, and geographically restricted profiles for Europe that operate exclusively within the EU. The routing system automatically selects target regions based on available capacity and minimal latency.
For European customers, the EU-specific CRIS profiles (EU CRIS) are critical. These guarantee that prompts, model outputs, and all data transmitted between them remain exclusively within EU regions. Data is encrypted in transit across AWS’s secure network. This geographic constraint directly addresses GDPR requirements regarding data localization and processing within the EU. In contrast, global profiles can process requests in non-EU regions.
From a user perspective, the system offers redundancy: since multiple EU regions provide the same models, vulnerability to regional capacity bottlenecks or outages decreases. Some models cost less via EU CRIS than through direct regional or global invocation. For CTOs, this means higher availability of European AI systems without compliance trade-offs.
Organizations must, however, consciously choose between profile types. While global profiles offer greater capacity and potential cost savings, they do not meet all European data protection requirements. EU CRIS profiles are the compliant choice for data-sensitive applications but limit routing to EU regions.
Source: aws.amazon.com · Published 8 June 2026
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