Amazon Web Services / aws.amazon.com
Amazon's proprietary foundation model family offering a range of text, multimodal, and creative AI models optimised for cost-performance across diverse enterprise use cases within the AWS ecosystem.
Pricing
Free
Free plan
No
Category
Developer Tools
Platforms
2
Free plan
No
API access
Yes
Open source
No
Platforms
2
Amazon Nova is Amazon Web Services' proprietary family of foundation models released in late 2024 through Amazon Bedrock. Nova represents Amazon's first major first-party foundation models competing directly with Claude, GPT-4o, and Gemini for enterprise AI workloads within the AWS ecosystem.
The Nova family offers multiple model tiers: Nova Micro (text-only, fastest and cheapest), Nova Lite (multimodal, strong price-performance), Nova Pro (most capable multimodal for complex tasks), and Nova Premier (frontier-class, highest capability). This tiered structure allows matching model capability and cost to specific use cases — using Nova Micro for high-volume simple classification and Nova Pro for complex document analysis.
Nova Premier, Amazon's most capable model, competes with frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google on difficult reasoning and coding benchmarks. Nova models are trained on Amazon's infrastructure with Amazon's own data and alignment approach.
For AWS-committed enterprises, Nova provides native alternatives to third-party foundation models — keeping AI inference within the AWS ecosystem, simplifying compliance for organisations with AWS data residency requirements, and potentially reducing costs at high inference volumes relative to third-party model pricing.
Nova models support multimodal inputs (text, images, video for some models), long context windows, and function calling, covering the standard enterprise AI use cases through the Bedrock API.
Amazon Nova runs as generative ai software built around text and image workflows. Users typically start with a prompt, upload, or connected data source, and the underlying model handles the heavy lifting before returning a result you can refine or export. It's available on web and api, with API access for teams that want to embed it into their own products.
The capabilities that matter most for teams evaluating Amazon Nova.
Nova Micro through Nova Premier covers simple high-volume text tasks through frontier multimodal reasoning, matching capability and cost to specific use case requirements.
Native Bedrock deployment with AWS IAM, VPC, logging, and compliance services enables seamless integration with existing AWS security and governance infrastructure.
Same API as other Bedrock models allows switching between Nova, Claude, Llama, and Mistral with model ID changes for experimentation and optimisation.
Pay-as-you-go via Amazon Bedrock. Nova Micro $0.035/M input tokens. Nova Lite $0.06/M. Nova Pro $0.80/M. Nova Premier (premium, higher pricing). No free tier but AWS free tier includes Bedrock credits.
Model
Usage-based
Starting price
Free
Free trial
No
Claude via Bedrock (covered) is the premium alternative within AWS. Meta Llama via Bedrock provides open source option. Mistral via Bedrock provides European alternative. Titan (Amazon's previous models) was the predecessor.
A side-by-side look at the closest alternative in this category.
Key facts about model providers, platforms, and team support.
Model Provider
Amazon Web Services
Models
Nova Micro, Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Premier
Platforms
Web, API
Deployment
SaaS, API
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, SageMaker, S3, AWS services, API
Team Collaboration
No
Launch Year
2024
Compliance signals and data-handling notes as reported by the vendor.
AWS security standards. SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. FedRAMP authorised. HIPAA eligible. AWS enterprise compliance certifications.
Amazon processes model inference data under AWS's comprehensive data handling policies. Models accessed via Bedrock benefit from AWS's zero data retention for inference option.
Editorial Verdict
Amazon Nova is the essential choice for AWS-committed enterprises who want native foundation models within the AWS ecosystem for compliance, cost, and integration advantages.
Last verified July 24, 2026.
Pay-as-you-go via Amazon Bedrock. Nova Micro $0.035/M input tokens. Nova Lite $0.06/M. Nova Pro $0.80/M. Nova Premier (premium, higher pricing). No free tier but AWS free tier includes Bedrock credits.
Pay-as-you-go per token. No minimum. Free trial with limited credits for new accounts. Pricing varies by model from $0.00015/1K tokens (Titan Lite) to $0.015/1K tokens (Claude 3 Opus). Provisioned throughput available.
AWS ecosystem (Lambda, S3, SageMaker, CloudWatch)
AWS security standards. SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. FedRAMP authorised. HIPAA eligible. AWS enterprise compliance certifications.
AWS security certifications including SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, and FedRAMP. VPC support for network isolation. Customer-managed encryption keys.
Amazon processes model inference data under AWS's comprehensive data handling policies. Models accessed via Bedrock benefit from AWS's zero data retention for inference option.
Bedrock inherits AWS's enterprise security and compliance framework. Data can remain within specific AWS regions for data residency requirements. Model outputs are not used for training. Customer data handling is governed by AWS's standard terms.
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