Nova (Amazon)
By Amazon Web Services
Amazon Nova is a family of first-party foundation models introduced by AWS in late 2024, available through Amazon Bedrock, spanning text, multimodal understanding, and content-generation models across a range of sizes and price/performance…
Definition
Amazon Nova is a family of first-party foundation models introduced by AWS in late 2024, available through Amazon Bedrock, spanning text, multimodal understanding, and content-generation models across a range of sizes and price/performance tiers.
Overview
Nova was introduced as AWS's next-generation first-party model lineup, expanding on what Amazon Titan offered with a broader range of models and modalities. The text-focused Nova models come in multiple sizes — commonly referred to as Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier tiers — letting customers trade off cost, latency, and capability depending on the task, from lightweight classification to complex multi-step reasoning. Beyond text, the Nova family extends into content generation with dedicated models for image generation and video generation, positioning it as a broader Multimodal Model family rather than a text-only lineup. Like Titan, Nova models are accessed exclusively through Amazon Bedrock, integrating with the same AWS security, networking, and monitoring tools that enterprise customers already rely on. AWS has positioned Nova as a competitive, cost-efficient option within Bedrock's broader marketplace of models, sitting alongside third-party offerings from Anthropic, Meta, and others. For AWS-centric organizations, Nova offers a way to reduce vendor sprawl by using a first-party model for a meaningful share of workloads while still being able to select third-party models like Claude for tasks where they perform better.
Key Features
- First-party AWS model family introduced in late 2024, succeeding Titan as AWS's flagship lineup
- Multiple text-model tiers (Micro, Lite, Pro, Premier) balancing cost and capability
- Extends beyond text into image and video generation models
- Available exclusively through Amazon Bedrock's managed infrastructure
- Integrates with AWS IAM, networking, and monitoring for enterprise deployments
- Positioned as a cost-competitive first-party alternative within Bedrock's model marketplace