# Amazon Nova

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-nova/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/ai/nova/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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).

## Kin Score — 40.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 51.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 51.3 |
| Access Clarity | 51.3 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (3)

- **Amazon Nova API** — 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...
- **Amazon Nova Async API** — Asynchronous invocation for long-running generation jobs.
- **Amazon Nova Inference API** — Synchronous and streaming inference operations.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Nova Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 5 acting

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Nova Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Nova Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Nova Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Nova Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Nova Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (8)

- **Interactive Chat Interfaces** — Build conversational AI applications with long context awareness using Nova Pro, Lite, or Micro.
- **Retrieval-Augmented Generation** — Enhance knowledge retrieval accuracy by combining Nova models with Bedrock Knowledge Bases.
- **Agentic Applications** — Build autonomous AI agents that reason and act using Nova models with Bedrock Agents.
- **Video and Document Analysis** — Analyze video content and complex documents (PDF, DOCX, XLS) with Nova Pro and Premier.
- **Image Generation and Editing** — Generate and edit high-quality images programmatically with Amazon Nova Canvas.
- **Video Generation** — Create short video clips from text or image prompts using Amazon Nova Reel.
- **Voice Assistants** — Build voice-enabled customer service and assistant applications with Nova Sonic speech model.
- **UI Workflow Automation** — Automate UI interactions and screen navigation workflows using Nova vision capabilities.

## Tags

Foundation Models, Generative AI, Image-Generation, Machine-Learning, Multi-Modal, Speech, Video Generation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-nova/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.