# AWS adds India-based inference for Kimi K3 on Bedrock

Digest AI · Enterprise & Industry · published 2026-11-03T16:32:54Z

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## Summary

AWS announced on November 3 that its Bedrock platform now supports in-country inference for Kimi K3, a multimodal open-weight model from Moonshot AI. This allows customers with strict data residency requirements to process workloads within India’s AWS Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions, avoiding cross-border data transfers. Ultrahuman, a health and wellness app, reports 80% lower LLM costs and 85% faster multi-turn chats using Kimi K3 in India, with health data remaining within AWS infrastructure.

The feature enables cross-Region inference profiles, where requests originate from any AWS Region but are processed in eligible destination Regions. AWS handles encryption and routing securely, without requiring public internet exposure or VPC setup. Kimi K3 supports OCR, multilingual document understanding (including Indic languages and Hinglish), structured output via JSON schemas, and advanced features like tool calling. AWS provides code samples for document processing pipelines, prompt optimization, and caching to reduce costs and latency. Pricing includes a 50% discount for the flex tier and explicit caching modes for static prompts.

## Key points

- AWS Bedrock now offers Kimi K3 inference in India’s Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions for data residency compliance
- Ultrahuman cuts LLM costs by 80% and speeds up chats by 85% using Kimi K3 in-country
- Kimi K3 supports OCR, multilingual document processing, and structured output via JSON schemas

## Why it matters

India-based inference for Kimi K3 lets businesses handle sensitive data locally while leveraging a leading open-weight model. This reduces costs, latency, and compliance risks for workflows like KYC forms and utility bill processing in Indic languages.

## Sources

1. [Introducing India-based inference for Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-india-based-inference-for-kimi-k3-on-amazon-bedrock) (AWS Machine Learning Blog, 2026-11-03, primary source)

## Cite

Digest AI, "AWS adds India-based inference for Kimi K3 on Bedrock", 3 November 2026, https://digestai.news/story/aws-adds-india-based-inference-for-kimi-k3-on-bedrock

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