diff --git a/libs/aws/langchain_aws/chat_models/bedrock_converse.py b/libs/aws/langchain_aws/chat_models/bedrock_converse.py
index ff8a3e26..4a9eb835 100644
--- a/libs/aws/langchain_aws/chat_models/bedrock_converse.py
+++ b/libs/aws/langchain_aws/chat_models/bedrock_converse.py
@@ -54,6 +54,19 @@
 _BM = TypeVar("_BM", bound=BaseModel)
 _DictOrPydanticClass = Union[Dict[str, Any], Type[_BM], Type]
 
+AWS_REGIONS = [
+    "us",
+    "sa",
+    "me",
+    "il",
+    "eu",
+    "cn",
+    "ca",
+    "ap",
+    "af",
+    "us-gov",
+]
+
 
 class ChatBedrockConverse(BaseChatModel):
     """Bedrock chat model integration built on the Bedrock converse API.
@@ -360,10 +373,19 @@ class Config:
 
     @root_validator(pre=True)
     def set_disable_streaming(cls, values: Dict) -> Dict:
-        values["provider"] = (
-            values.get("provider")
-            or (values.get("model_id", values["model"])).split(".")[0]
-        )
+        if "provider" not in values:
+            model_id = values.get("model_id", values["model"])
+            if not model_id:
+                raise ValueError("model_id must be provided")
+
+            if model_id.startswith("arn"):
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Model provider should be supplied when passing a model ARN as "
+                    "model_id"
+                )
+
+            parts = model_id.split(".", maxsplit=2)
+            values["provider"] = parts[1] if _model_is_inference(model_id) else parts[0]
 
         # As of 08/05/24 only Anthropic models support streamed tool calling
         if "disable_streaming" not in values:
@@ -997,3 +1019,9 @@ def _format_openai_image_url(image_url: str) -> Dict:
         "format": match.group("media_type"),
         "source": {"bytes": _b64str_to_bytes(match.group("data"))},
     }
+
+
+def _model_is_inference(model_id: str) -> bool:
+    parts = model_id.split(".")
+
+    return True if parts[0] in AWS_REGIONS else False
diff --git a/libs/aws/langchain_aws/llms/bedrock.py b/libs/aws/langchain_aws/llms/bedrock.py
index 172688ec..6bb17e44 100644
--- a/libs/aws/langchain_aws/llms/bedrock.py
+++ b/libs/aws/langchain_aws/llms/bedrock.py
@@ -42,6 +42,18 @@
 ALTERNATION_ERROR = (
     "Error: Prompt must alternate between '\n\nHuman:' and '\n\nAssistant:'."
 )
+AWS_REGIONS = [
+    "us",
+    "sa",
+    "me",
+    "il",
+    "eu",
+    "cn",
+    "ca",
+    "ap",
+    "af",
+    "us-gov",
+]
 
 
 def _add_newlines_before_ha(input_text: str) -> str:
@@ -625,15 +637,10 @@ def _get_provider(self) -> str:
                 "model_id"
             )
 
-        # If model_id has region prefixed to them,
-        # for example eu.anthropic.claude-3-haiku-20240307-v1:0,
-        # provider is the second part, otherwise, the first part
         parts = self.model_id.split(".", maxsplit=2)
-        return (
-            parts[1]
-            if (len(parts) > 1 and parts[0].lower() in {"eu", "us", "ap", "sa"})
-            else parts[0]
-        )
+        # inference models are in the format of <region>.<provider>.<model_id>
+        # the others are in the format of <provider>.<model_id>
+        return parts[1] if self._model_is_inference else parts[0]
 
     def _get_model(self) -> str:
         return self.model_id.split(".", maxsplit=1)[-1]
@@ -642,6 +649,12 @@ def _get_model(self) -> str:
     def _model_is_anthropic(self) -> bool:
         return self._get_provider() == "anthropic"
 
+    @property
+    def _model_is_inference(self) -> bool:
+        parts = self.model_id.split(".")
+
+        return True if parts[0] in AWS_REGIONS else False
+
     @property
     def _guardrails_enabled(self) -> bool:
         """