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: TermsOfService url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ - type: PrivacyPolicy 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: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/aws - type: Console url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/ - type: SignUp url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup - type: Login url: https://signin.aws.amazon.com/ - type: StatusPage 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: kin@apievangelist.com