diff --git a/litellm/llms/bedrock/embed/embedding.py b/litellm/llms/bedrock/embed/embedding.py
index f15a512077a..26ef68bd252 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/bedrock/embed/embedding.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/bedrock/embed/embedding.py
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import (
     get_async_httpx_client,
     get_httpx_client,
 )
-from litellm.secret_managers.main import get_secret
 from litellm.types.llms.bedrock import (
     AmazonEmbeddingRequest,
     CohereEmbeddingRequest,
@@ -101,23 +100,8 @@ class BedrockEmbedding(BaseAWSLLM):
     ) -> tuple[Credentials | None, str]:
         auth_params: Final = pop_aws_auth_params(optional_params)
         explicit_region_name: Final = optional_params.pop("aws_region_name", None)
-        aws_region_name = region_from_model if explicit_region_name is None else explicit_region_name
-
-        ### SET REGION NAME ###
-        if aws_region_name is None:
-            # check env #
-            litellm_aws_region_name: Final = get_secret("AWS_REGION_NAME", None)
-
-            if litellm_aws_region_name is not None and isinstance(litellm_aws_region_name, str):
-                aws_region_name = litellm_aws_region_name
-
-            standard_aws_region_name: Final = get_secret("AWS_REGION", None)
-            if standard_aws_region_name is not None and isinstance(standard_aws_region_name, str):
-                aws_region_name = standard_aws_region_name
-
-            if aws_region_name is None:
-                aws_region_name = "us-west-2"
-
+        requested_region: Final = region_from_model if explicit_region_name is None else explicit_region_name
+        aws_region_name: Final = self._get_aws_region_name(optional_params={"aws_region_name": requested_region})
         credentials: Final[Credentials | None] = (
             None if bearer_token is not None else self.resolve_credentials(auth_params, aws_region_name)
         )
@@ -446,11 +430,6 @@ class BedrockEmbedding(BaseAWSLLM):
         ### TRANSFORMATION ###
         unencoded_model_id: Final = model_id_param or bedrock_model
         modelId: Final = urllib.parse.quote(unencoded_model_id, safe="")
-        aws_region_name = self._get_aws_region_name(
-            optional_params={"aws_region_name": aws_region_name},
-            model=bedrock_model,
-            model_id=unencoded_model_id,
-        )
         provider: Final = self.get_bedrock_embedding_provider(bedrock_model)
         if provider is None:
             raise Exception(
diff --git a/tests/unit/llms/bedrock/embed/test_bedrock_embedding.py b/tests/unit/llms/bedrock/embed/test_bedrock_embedding.py
index 889faf784bf..80ef86a4ec8 100644
--- a/tests/unit/llms/bedrock/embed/test_bedrock_embedding.py
+++ b/tests/unit/llms/bedrock/embed/test_bedrock_embedding.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import json
 import asyncio
 import os
+from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Final
 from unittest.mock import Mock, patch
 from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, MagicMock
@@ -302,6 +303,25 @@ def test_bedrock_embedding_plain_model_id_calls_the_env_region_like_chat(
     assert route.call_count == 1
 
 
+def test_bedrock_embedding_calls_the_boto3_session_region_like_chat(
+    respx_mock: respx.MockRouter,
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    for name in ("AWS_REGION_NAME", "AWS_REGION", "AWS_PROFILE"):
+        monkeypatch.delenv(name, raising=False)
+    monkeypatch.setenv("AWS_CONFIG_FILE", str(tmp_path / "no-aws-config"))
+    monkeypatch.setenv("AWS_DEFAULT_REGION", "ap-south-1")
+    route: Final = respx_mock.post(url__regex=r"^https://bedrock-runtime\.[a-z0-9-]+\.amazonaws\.com/").mock(
+        return_value=httpx.Response(200, json=titan_embedding_response)
+    )
+
+    litellm.embedding(model="bedrock/amazon.titan-embed-text-v2:0", input=[test_input], api_key="test-bearer-token")
+
+    sent_to: Final = route.calls.last.request.url
+    assert sent_to.host == "bedrock-runtime.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com", str(sent_to)
+
+
 def test_bedrock_embedding_rejects_an_empty_aws_region_name_instead_of_using_the_path_region(
     respx_mock: respx.MockRouter,
 ) -> None: