# Amazon Nova API

## Kurzbeschreibung
**Amazon Nova** is Amazon's own family of foundation models for text, image/video understanding, document analysis, agents, tool use, and speech. 


Nova is used via Amazon Bedrock APIs, in particular InvokeModel, InvokeModelWithResponseStream, Converse, ConverseStream, and, for Sonic, via bidirectional streaming.

## Claim
LLM “frontier intelligence” - “industry-leading price-performance”

## Geeignet für
- API Integration
- Audio / Voice
- Automation / Workflows
- Education
- Data Analysis
- Data Extraction / Document Analysis
- Email / Communication
- Customer Service & Chatbots
- Marketing & Advertising
- Programming / Software Development
- Research
- Writing & Editing
- Texts / Content
- Sales / Sales
- Video
- Knowledge Management / Internal Search

## Kernfunktionen
- Agents
- AWS
- Batch
- Bedrock
- Image
- Fine-tuning
- Guardrails
- KMS
- Multimodal
- Nova
- PrivateLink
- RAG
- Text Analysis
- Video

## Preismodell
- **free:** AWS shows “Get started for free,” but for Amazon Nova/Bedrock, publicly documented billing is primarily usage-based; specific free quotas depend on AWS offerings, region, and account.
- **other:** **On-Demand / Standard Tier** Usage-based inference by model, modality, and tokens or image/video/special usage.


**Flex / Priority / Reserved Tiers** Bedrock supports different service tiers to manage cost, availability, latency, and throughput.


**Batch Inference **Asynchronous processing of larger workloads; according to AWS, cheaper than On-Demand for selected models.


**Provisioned Throughput** Reserved capacity for higher or predictable throughput; required for certain custom or production scenarios.


**Fine-Tuning / Custom Models** Customization using your own training/validation data; use of individual models typically via provisioned capacity.


**Guardrails / Knowledge Bases / Agents / Prompt Routing **Additional Bedrock features for security, RAG, agent orchestration, model routing, and governance.

## DSGVO und Datenschutz
**Gesamteinschätzung:** Yes

**Overall assessment of hosting & data: **

Amazon Nova is available via Amazon Bedrock as a fully managed AWS API service. The Nova model family includes Nova Micro, Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Premier, Nova Canvas, and Nova Reel for text, image, video, and multimodal applications. Positive aspects include AWS-native security and governance features such as IAM, KMS, VPC/PrivateLink, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Guardrails, Knowledge Bases, Agents, Batch, Provisioned Throughput, Fine-Tuning, and Cross-Region Inference Profiles. A critical point is that traditional on-prem hosting of the Nova models is not publicly available as a standard offering, and that Cross-Region Inference must be deliberately controlled when data residency is important. 


**Conclusion:** 

Amazon Nova via Bedrock is particularly strong for companies that want to run generative AI productively in AWS; for EU/GDPR use, EU regions, geographic cross-region profiles, logging, S3 storage, IAM, and the DPA should be configured properly.


[Data protection](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/data-protection.html)

**GDPR assessment:** Amazon Nova via Amazon Bedrock is well suited from a GDPR perspective if AWS contracts, DPA, region, IAM, logging, and cross-region inference are configured correctly. 


**Positive **is that, according to AWS, Amazon Bedrock does not store or log prompts and completions, does not use them to train AWS models, and does not distribute them to third parties. According to AWS, model providers do not receive access to the Bedrock deployment accounts, logs, or customer inputs/outputs. In addition, Bedrock offers encryption in transit and at rest, AWS KMS, IAM, CloudTrail, PrivateLink, and compliance references including GDPR, ISO, SOC, CSA STAR, HIPAA Eligible, and FedRAMP High for AWS GovCloud. 


**Negative **is that, under the shared responsibility model, the customer remains responsible for correct configuration, region, access rights, logs, tags, external data sources, knowledge bases, and cross-region inference. 


**Server location:** Depends on the selected AWS region; with geographic cross-region inference, prompts/outputs can be processed within a geography such as the EU, while with global cross-region inference, data can be processed worldwide in supported commercial AWS regions. Further links: Amazon Bedrock Data Protection, Security & Privacy, Cross-Region Inference.


[Data protection](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/data-protection.html)

## Hosting und Daten
- **On-Prem / lokales Hosting:** unknown
- **Private Cloud / Rechenzentrum:** teilweise / indirekt
- **EU SaaS / Managed:** abgedeckt
- **Hybrid:** abgedeckt
- **AVV / DPA:** abgedeckt
- **Kein Training auf Kundendaten:** abgedeckt
- **Open-Source / Transparenz-Pfad:** unknown

## Herkunft
**Land:** USA

**Taxonomie:** USA

For AWS in general, officially documented, among others, is Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5210, U.S.A.

## Vorteile
- Strong AWS integration.
- No training with customer data according to AWS.
- EU regions or EU geo-inference available for several Nova models.
- Good model tiering from inexpensive/fast to powerful.
- Multimodal models for text, images, video, documents, and code.
- Strong enterprise controls via AWS IAM, VPC/PrivateLink-like architecture, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, KMS, and Bedrock Guardrails.

## Nachteile
- No self-hosting of the Nova model weights.
- No open-source/open-weights path.
- Prices depend heavily on the model, region, service tier, and token consumption.
- Some models are only available in certain regions.
- Nova Canvas and Nova Reel are Nova models, but not LLMs.
- For GDPR projects, region, cross-region inference, logging, guardrails, retention, and the AWS contract must be configured properly.

## Quellen
- Offizielle Website: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/what-is-nova.html

## Letzter Datenstand
2026-04-25

## Originalseite
https://kifox.ai/en/ki-tools/amazon-nova-api-en/