generated: '2026-09-01'
method: searched
source:
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/playgrounds.html
- https://console.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/getting-started-console.html
available: partial
kind: console-playground
note: >-
  Amazon Nova has NO sandbox in the payments sense — there is no test mode, no test/live key
  prefix pair, no magic test identifiers and no fixture tooling. What exists is the Amazon Bedrock
  console playground: an interactive surface where a signed-in AWS user can prompt Nova models
  before writing code. It is a real try-before-you-build surface, but every call in it is a live,
  billed inference against production endpoints.
surfaces:
- name: Amazon Bedrock console playgrounds
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/
  docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/playgrounds.html
  auth: AWS account sign-in
  billed: true
  note: >-
    Custom models (including fine-tuned image generation models) are not supported in the console
    playgrounds; those require API calls against provisioned throughput.
test_credentials:
  separation: none
  key_prefixes: []
  note: >-
    Nova is called with the same SigV4 credentials or Amazon Bedrock API key in every environment.
    Isolation is achieved with a separate AWS account or IAM role, not with a test key.
magic_values: []
test_clocks:
  supported: false
cost_controls:
- name: CountTokens
  operation: POST /model/{modelId}/count-tokens
  description: >-
    Marked @readonly in the AWS service model. The nearest thing to a dry run: size and price a
    request before spending an inference call on it.
- name: Nova Micro
  model_id: amazon.nova-micro-v1:0
  description: >-
    At 0.000035 USD / 1K input tokens it is the cheapest Nova model, and the pragmatic choice for
    exercising an integration end-to-end without meaningful spend.