Amazon Nova
Amazon's AI model family
A family of foundation models developed by Amazon, used through Bedrock: text/multimodal understanding models (Micro, Lite, Pro, Premier), image generation (Canvas), video generation (Reel), and speech (Sonic).
- Cost$ Low
- Difficulty●●●●●
- Costs money when idle?No
- Serverless
Think of it asLike a supermarket's store brand: on the same shelf as other brands' products, usually at a gentler price.
When to use it
✓ Use it when
You need a good model with low cost and latency, ready to run within the AWS ecosystem.
✗ Avoid it when
You need a specific model from another provider (such as Claude) → choose that model on Bedrock.
Common uses
- Low-cost text summarization and classification
- Generate marketing images/videos
- Real-time voice assistants
What does it cost?
- Pricing model: Charged through Bedrock per input/output token (or per image, per second of video); Provisioned Throughput is available as an option.
