Last refreshed 2026-05-19. Next refresh: weekly.
Why use Amazon Nova Canvas on AWS Bedrock?
AWS Bedrock offers Amazon Nova Canvas with competitive pricing. AWS Bedrock is Amazon's fully managed foundation-model service, providing unified API access to top models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, and other leading AI labs with built-in tools for RAG, fine-tuning, and AI agent development.
Input / 1M
-
Output / 1M
-
Cache
Not sourced
Batch
Not sourced
Setup recipe
Python + curlInstall
pip install boto3Auth
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=...Call
import boto3
client = boto3.client("bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")
response = client.converse(
modelId="nova-canvas",Model ID
nova-canvasRequest example
import boto3
# Reads AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION from env
client = boto3.client("bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")
response = client.converse(
modelId="nova-canvas",
messages=[{
"role": "user",
"content": [{"text": "Hello"}]
}]
)
print(response["output"]["message"]["content"][0]["text"])Gotchas
- Use Amazon Bedrock model IDs, e.g. "anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0" for on-demand, or cross-region inference profile IDs like "us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-7-20251101-v1:0". These differ from the public model slug.
- The endpoint template includes a region segment; set the same region in your SDK/client configuration.
- The examples expect AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
About Amazon Nova Canvas
Amazon Nova Canvas is Amazon's Nova model. It was released 2025-11-01.
FAQ
Who created Amazon Nova Canvas?
Amazon Nova Canvas was created by Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI as part of the Nova model family.
Is Amazon Nova Canvas open source?
Amazon Nova Canvas is not open source; the seed data lists it as proprietary.
Get Started
Model Specs
Released2025-11-01