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What is Amazon Nova?

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What is Amazon Nova? - Amazon Nova

Amazon Nova is a new generation of foundation models that deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance, available on Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Nova models include three understanding models, two creative content generation models, and one speech-to-speech model. Through seamless integration with Amazon Bedrock, developers can build and scale generative AI applications with Amazon Nova foundation models. To start building with Amazon Nova, you must access the models through an API using Amazon Bedrock.

Understanding models: Amazon Nova Pro, Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Micro

Amazon Nova Pro, Lite, and Micro are among the fastest and most cost-effective in their respective intelligence classes. They also excel in agentic capabilities and UI actuation. With text and vision fine-tuning on Amazon Bedrock, you can customize Amazon Nova Pro, Lite, and Micro to deliver the optimal intelligence and cost for your needs.

  • Amazon Nova Micro is a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses at very low cost.

  • Amazon Nova Lite is a very low cost multimodal model that is lightning fast for processing image, video, and text inputs.

  • Amazon Nova Pro is a highly capable multimodal model with the best combination of accuracy, speed, and cost for a wide range of tasks.

Creative Content Generation models: Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel

Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel deliver high-quality, customizable images and videos to match your creative needs.

Creative Content Generation models: Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel

Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel deliver high-quality images and videos, with the flexibility to tailor visual outputs to match your creative needs.

  • Amazon Nova Canvas is an image generation model that creates professional grade images from text and image inputs. Amazon Nova Canvas is ideal for a wide range of applications such as advertising, marketing, and entertainment.

  • Amazon Nova Reel is a video generation model that supports the generation of short videos from input text and images. Amazon Nova Reel provides camera motion controls using natural language inputs.

Amazon Nova Canvas is available in US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Amazon Nova Reel is available in US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo).

Speech-to-Speech model: Amazon Nova Sonic

Amazon Nova Sonic is a foundation model for conversational speech recognition and generation. The model accepts speech as input and provides speech with text transcriptions as output. Amazon Nova Sonic offers a natural, human-like conversational AI experience with contextual richness. It is the first model to feature bidirectional streaming API capabilities, allowing for real-time, low-latency multi-turn conversations.

Amazon Nova Sonic is currently available only in US East (N. Virginia) and for English.

For full model and region support information in Amazon Bedrock, see Supported foundation models in Amazon Bedrock

Overall model information

Amazon Nova Pro

Amazon Nova Lite

Amazon Nova Micro

Model ID

amazon.nova-pro-v1:0

amazon.nova-lite-v1:0

amazon.nova-micro-v1:0

Inference Profile ID

us.amazon.nova-pro-v1:0

us.amazon.nova-lite-v1:0

us.amazon.nova-micro-v1:0

Input modalities

Text, Image, Video

Text, Image, Video

Text

Output Modalities

Text

Text

Text

Context Window

300k

300k

128k

Max Output Tokens

5k

5k

5k

Supported Languages

200+1

200+1

200+1

Regions

US East (N. Virginia)2, Asia Pacific (Tokyo)2, AWS GovCloud (US-West)

US East (N. Virginia)2, Asia Pacific (Tokyo)2, AWS GovCloud (US-West)

US East (N. Virginia)2, Asia Pacific (Tokyo)2, AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Document Support

pdf, csv, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, html, txt, md

pdf, csv, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, html, txt, md

No

Converse API

Yes

Yes

Yes

InvokeAPI

Yes

Yes

Yes

Streaming

Yes

Yes

Yes

Batch Inference

Yes

Yes

Yes

Fine Tuning

Yes

Yes

Yes

Provisioned Throughput

Yes

Yes

Yes

Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Yes

Yes

Yes

Bedrock Agents

Yes

Yes

Yes

Bedrock Guardrails

Yes (text only)

Yes (text only)

Yes

Bedrock Evaluations

Yes (text only)

Yes (text only)

Yes

Bedrock Prompt flows

Yes

Yes

Yes

Bedrock Studio

Yes

Yes

Yes

Bedrock Batch Inference

Yes

Yes

Yes

1: Optimized for these 15 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish, and Hebrew.

2: You can access this model in the US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions through cross-region inference. Cross-region inference allows you to seamlessly manage unplanned traffic bursts by utilizing compute across different AWS Regions. With cross-region inference, you can distribute traffic across multiple AWS Regions. To learn more about cross-region inference, see Supported Regions and models for inference profiles and Improve resilience with cross-region inference in the Amazon Bedrock User Guide.

Amazon Nova Canvas

Amazon Nova Reel

Model ID

amazon.nova-canvas-v1:0

amazon.nova-reel-v1:1

Input Modalities

Text, Image

Text, Image

Output Modalities

Image

Video

Max Prompt Length

1024 characters

Input Context Window

512 characters

Output Resolution (generation tasks)

4.19 million pixels (that is, 2048x2048, 2816x1536)

1280x720, 24 frames per second

Max Output Resolution (editing tasks)

Must meet all of the following:

  • 4096 pixels on its longest side

  • Aspect ratio between 1:4 and 4:1

  • Total pixel count of 4.19 million or smaller

Supported Input Types

PNG, JPEG

Supported Languages

English

English

Regions

US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West)

US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Asynchronous Invoke Model API

No

Yes

Invoke Model API

Yes

No

Amazon Nova Sonic

Model ID

amazon.nova-sonic-v1:0

Input Modalities

Speech

Output Modalities

Speech with transcription and text responses

Context Window

300K context

Max Connection Duration

8 minutes connection timeout, with max 20 concurrent connections per customer.1

Supported Languages

English

Regions

US East (N. Virginia)

Bidirectional Stream API Support

Yes

Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Supported through tool use (function calling)

1: By default, the connection limit is 8 minutes, however you can renew the connection and continue the conversation by providing the previous conversation's history.

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