Amazon Nova
by Amazon Web Services
At a glance
AWS portfolio of Amazon-built foundation models and services for text, multimodal, speech, custom model building, and UI-automating agents.
foundation-models multimodal cloud
- Licence
- Not recorded
- Category
- Platforms & Infrastructure
- Business model
- Paid
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2024-12
Overview
Amazon Nova is AWS's portfolio of Amazon-built AI models and services. It includes fast, cost-effective foundation models for text and multimodal work, Nova Forge for building custom frontier models, and Nova Act for agents that automate browser-based UI workflows. Later additions include Nova 2 Lite and the speech-to-speech model Nova 2 Sonic. Nova is available to AWS customers, typically through Amazon Bedrock, with usage-based pricing.
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Key features
- Amazon-built text and multimodal foundation models
- Nova Forge for building custom frontier models
- Nova Act agents for browser and UI workflow automation
- Nova 2 Lite reasoning and Nova 2 Sonic speech-to-speech models
Use cases
- Cost-sensitive chat, summarization, and multimodal analysis on AWS
- Building a custom frontier model with Nova Forge
- Automating production UI workflows with Nova Act agents
Pricing
Amazon Nova is billed through AWS, typically via Amazon Bedrock, with usage-based pricing that varies by model and service.
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Links, dates and provenance
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- 2026-09-04
- Pricing
- aws.amazon.com ↗
- Documentation
- docs.aws.amazon.com ↗
- Founded
- 2006
- Headquarters
- US
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- Running models yourself
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- Web app
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- Global
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- proprietary
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Frequently asked questions
What is Amazon Nova?
Amazon Nova is AWS's family of Amazon-built foundation models and related services, including Nova Forge and Nova Act.
How do I access Amazon Nova?
AWS customers typically access Nova models through Amazon Bedrock and related AWS consoles and APIs.
Is Amazon Nova open source?
No. Nova models are proprietary Amazon models offered as a paid AWS service.
What does Amazon Nova not record?
Amazon Nova's API is not confirmed here, and its price figures, licence terms, regional availability and language coverage are not established either.
Similar products
- Amazon Bedrock — Managed AWS service for building applications with foundation models from multiple providers via one API.
- Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform — Google Cloud's platform for building and running AI models and agents, branded Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI).
- Microsoft Foundry — Microsoft's Azure platform for building, evaluating, and deploying AI applications and agents, branded Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry).
- Gcore — Provider of edge AI, cloud, network, and security services, including GPU cloud, serverless inference with OpenAI-compatible APIs, and a global edge network.
- Infomaniak AI Services — Swiss-hosted AI service that serves open-source language, transcription and image models through an OpenAI-compatible API and a web app, billed on credits.
- Nebius — AI cloud platform for workloads from training through inference, with NVIDIA GPU instances billed per GPU-hour, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and token-based inference services.
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