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Glean does not currently support GovCloud regions.

Required AWS Services

When deciding on deployment region for your Glean deployment, you must ensure that all AWS services required by Glean are available for use in your environment.
ServiceRequiredVPC Endpoint Support
Amazon AthenaYesOpt-in
Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock RuntimeNo - Required only if Claude is the selected LLMOpt-in
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)YesOpt-in
AWS CloudFormationYesOpt-in
AWS CloudTrailNo - Only used by debug roles for troubleshooting and can be blockedNot available
AWS CodeBuildYesOpt-in
DynamoDBYes (only used for Terraform state locking)Default enabled
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)YesOpt-in
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)YesOpt-in
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR and DKR)YesOpt-in
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)YesOpt-in
Amazon ElastiCacheYesOpt-in
Elastic Load Balancing/Application Load Balancing (ELB/ALB)YesOpt-in
GlueYesOpt-in
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)YesOpt-in
Kinesis FirehoseYesOpt-in
AWS IAMYesOpt-in
AWS LambdaYesOpt-in
AWS Pricing APINoOpt-in
Amazon CloudWatch EventsNoOpt-in
Amazon CloudWatch Metrics and LogsYesOpt-in
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS & Performance Insights)YesOpt-in
AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)No - only if sharing TGW for on-prem connectivityOpt-in
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)YesDefault enabled
Amazon SageMakerYes (see below for specifics)Opt-in
AWS Secrets ManagerYesOpt-in
AWS Service QuotasNoOpt-in
AWS ShieldNoOpt-in
AWS SignerYesNot available
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)YesOpt-in
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)YesOpt-in
STSYesOpt-in
AWS Systems Manager (Session Manager only w/ SSM Messages and EC2 Messages)YesDefault enabled
Amazon TextractNoNot available
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)YesNot available
AWS WAFv2YesOpt-in
Glean uses AWS VPC endpoints to keep AWS API traffic internal within a VPC. Default enabled endpoints (DynamoDB, S3, SSM, SSM Messages, EC2 Messages) are always provisioned. Opt-in endpoints can be enabled upon request — note that VPC endpoints incur additional cost. Contact Glean if you would like to enable any optional endpoints or request support for a service not listed above.

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock is only required if you wish to use Anthropic’s Claude models for your organization’s selected LLM. If so, you must ensure that the following models are present in Bedrock for your selected region (Glean does not support the region if these models are not available):
  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet (V1)
  • Claude 3 Haiku
  • Amazon Titan Embeddings G1 - Text
More information: Model Support by AWS Region (docs.aws.amazon.com)

Amazon SageMaker

For Amazon Sagemaker, Glean requires that the following resource types be available in region:
  • ml.p3.16xlarge (NVIDIA V100 Multi GPU machines)
  • ml.g4dn.xlarge
  • ml.m5.2xlarge (deployments under 50M documents)
  • ml.m5.4xlarge (deployments over 50M documents)