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).
Amazon Nova publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Async API and Inference API. Tagged areas include Foundation Models, Generative AI, Image-Generation, Machine-Learning, and Multi-Modal.
The Amazon Nova catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.
Amazon Nova’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, support, engineering blog, developer console, signup flow, API reference, and 39 more developer resources.
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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...
Asynchronous invocation for long-running Amazon Nova generation jobs, principally Amazon Nova Reel video generation. StartAsyncInvoke returns an invocationArn, GetAsyncInvoke po...
Synchronous and streaming inference against the Amazon Nova understanding and generation models through the Amazon Bedrock Runtime endpoint — InvokeModel, InvokeModelWithRespons...
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.
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text, image, video, speech understanding and generation across a range of model types: Nova Premier (1M context), Nova Pro,
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- type: Compliance
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- type: Plans
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description: 'Seven specialized models: Nova Premier (1M context), Nova Pro, Nova Lite, Nova Micro (text), Nova Canvas
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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.
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- name: Interactive Chat Interfaces
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- name: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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- 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
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- name: Bedrock Agents
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- 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
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- name: Amazon S3
description: Store and access training data, batch inference inputs/outputs, and generated media artifacts.
- name: AWS IAM
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- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
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