Amazon Nova is a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models from Amazon that deliver a compelling combination of accuracy, speed, and cost efficiency. Amazon Nova models are accessible through Amazon Bedrock and support text, image, video, speech understanding and generation across a range of model types: Nova Premier (1M context), Nova Pro, Nova Lite, Nova Micro (text-only), Nova Canvas (image generation), Nova Reel (video generation), and Nova Sonic (speech).
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The Amazon Nova API provides programmatic access to Amazon Nova foundation models through Amazon Bedrock for text, image, and video generation, understanding, and reasoning task...
Seven specialized models: Nova Premier (1M context), Nova Pro, Nova Lite, Nova Micro (text), Nova Canvas (image), Nova Reel (video), Nova Sonic (speech).
Multimodal Input
Supports text, images, video, documents (PDF, CSV, DOCX, XLS, HTML), and speech as input modalities.
Long Context Windows
Up to 1 million token context window in Nova Premier; 300k tokens in Nova Pro and Lite; 128k in Nova Micro.
Streaming Responses
All understanding models support streaming for real-time interactive applications.
Batch Inference
All understanding models support batch processing for high-volume offline workloads.
Fine-Tuning
Nova Pro, Lite, and Micro support fine-tuning for domain-specific customization.
Model Distillation
Nova Premier can serve as a teacher model for distillation into Pro, Lite, and Micro.
Bedrock Integration
Natively integrated with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Agents, Guardrails, Evaluations, and Prompt Flows.
aid: amazon-nova
name: Amazon Nova
description: >-
Amazon Nova is a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models from Amazon that deliver a compelling combination of accuracy, speed, and cost efficiency. Amazon Nova models are accessible through
Amazon Bedrock and support text, image, video, speech understanding and generation across a range of model types: Nova Premier (1M context), Nova Pro, Nova Lite, Nova Micro (text-only), Nova Canvas (image
generation), Nova Reel (video generation), and Nova Sonic (speech).
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- AWS
- Foundation Models
- Generative AI
- Image Generation
- Machine Learning
- Multimodal
- Speech
- Video Generation
url: >-
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-nova/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-04-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: amazon-nova:amazon-nova-api
name: Amazon Nova API
description: The Amazon Nova API provides programmatic access to Amazon Nova foundation models through Amazon Bedrock for text, image, and video generation, understanding, and reasoning tasks.
Supports Nova Premier, Pro, Lite, Micro, Canvas, Reel, and Sonic models.
humanUrl: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/what-is-nova.html
baseUrl: https://bedrock-runtime.{region}.amazonaws.com
tags:
- Foundation Models
- Generative AI
- Multimodal
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/what-is-nova.html
- type: APIReference
url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/APIReference/API_runtime_InvokeModel.html
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/getting-started.html
- type: Pricing
url: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/
common:
- type: Portal
url: https://aws.amazon.com/ai/nova/
- type: Website
url: https://aws.amazon.com/ai/nova/
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/
- type: Terms of Service
url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: Privacy Policy
url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: Support
url: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
- type: Blog
url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/tag/amazon-nova/
- type: GitHub Organization
url: https://github.com/aws
- type: Console
url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/
- type: Sign Up
url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup
- type: Login
url: https://signin.aws.amazon.com/
- type: Status
url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: Contact
url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
- type: Features
data:
- name: Multiple Model Types
description: 'Seven specialized models: Nova Premier (1M context), Nova Pro, Nova Lite, Nova Micro (text), Nova Canvas (image), Nova Reel (video), Nova Sonic (speech).'
- name: Multimodal Input
description: Supports text, images, video, documents (PDF, CSV, DOCX, XLS, HTML), and speech as input modalities.
- name: Long Context Windows
description: Up to 1 million token context window in Nova Premier; 300k tokens in Nova Pro and Lite; 128k in Nova Micro.
- name: Streaming Responses
description: All understanding models support streaming for real-time interactive applications.
- name: Batch Inference
description: All understanding models support batch processing for high-volume offline workloads.
- name: Fine-Tuning
description: Nova Pro, Lite, and Micro support fine-tuning for domain-specific customization.
- name: Model Distillation
description: Nova Premier can serve as a teacher model for distillation into Pro, Lite, and Micro.
- name: Bedrock Integration
description: Natively integrated with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Agents, Guardrails, Evaluations, and Prompt Flows.
- type: UseCases
data:
- name: Interactive Chat Interfaces
description: Build conversational AI applications with long context awareness using Nova Pro, Lite, or Micro.
- name: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
description: Enhance knowledge retrieval accuracy by combining Nova models with Bedrock Knowledge Bases.
- name: Agentic Applications
description: Build autonomous AI agents that reason and act using Nova models with Bedrock Agents.
- name: Video and Document Analysis
description: Analyze video content and complex documents (PDF, DOCX, XLS) with Nova Pro and Premier.
- name: Image Generation and Editing
description: Generate and edit high-quality images programmatically with Amazon Nova Canvas.
- name: Video Generation
description: Create short video clips from text or image prompts using Amazon Nova Reel.
- name: Voice Assistants
description: Build voice-enabled customer service and assistant applications with Nova Sonic speech model.
- name: UI Workflow Automation
description: Automate UI interactions and screen navigation workflows using Nova vision capabilities.
- type: Integrations
data:
- name: Amazon Bedrock
description: Primary access method; all Nova models are served through the Bedrock InvokeModel and InvokeModelWithResponseStream APIs.
- name: Bedrock Knowledge Bases
description: Connect Nova models to structured and unstructured data sources for RAG applications.
- name: Bedrock Agents
description: Orchestrate multi-step agentic workflows with tool use and memory using Nova as the reasoning engine.
- name: Bedrock Guardrails
description: Apply safety guardrails to Nova Premier, Pro, and Lite model outputs for content filtering.
- name: Bedrock Prompt Flows
description: Build visual prompt chaining workflows connecting Nova models with other services.
- name: Bedrock Evaluations
description: Evaluate Nova model performance on custom benchmarks and safety criteria.
- name: Amazon S3
description: Store and access training data, batch inference inputs/outputs, and generated media artifacts.
- name: AWS IAM
description: Control access to Nova model invocations through fine-grained IAM policies and Bedrock model access settings.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: [email protected]