Amazon Nova.
Amazon's frontier model family native to Bedrock across Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier tiers.
What it is.
AWS's own frontier model family, announced at re:Invent 2024 and extended through 2026. Four reasoning tiers — Micro, Lite, Pro, Premier — plus Canvas for image generation and Reel for video. Native Bedrock integration handles routing, evaluation, and guardrails. Amazon trains Nova on Trainium2 silicon, which underwrites the aggressive price-per-token positioning.
Where it fits.
Buyers already deep on AWS who want a frontier model without crossing a vendor boundary. Bedrock routing makes the four-tier line easy to deploy as a cost-controlled cascade. Strong fit for retail, logistics, and any workload anchored to S3 data. Premier competes with Sonnet on enterprise reasoning at lower listed pricing.
- Lowest per-token pricing among frontier US vendors
- Native Bedrock governance, eval, and guardrails
- Tier cascade enables cost-controlled routing out of the box
- Bedrock-only — no first-party serving outside AWS
- Behind Sonnet and GPT-5 on tool-use ecosystem maturity
Frequently asked.
How does Nova Premier compare to Claude Sonnet?
Comparable on reasoning benchmarks at lower listed price. Sonnet leads on tool use and Skills. Most Bedrock buyers route by task class across both.
Can Nova run outside AWS?
No. Nova is a first-party Bedrock service. Amazon has not announced an external serving path.
What silicon does Nova train on?
Trainium2 inside AWS Project Rainier. Amazon disclosed the cluster details at re:Invent 2024; subsequent expansion has not been individually announced.
