Amazon Nova 3
Amazon's third-generation Nova frontier model family, unveiled at an AWS keynote with a 1M-token context window and a dedicated agentic tool-use variant.
Overview
Amazon unveiled the Nova 3 model family at an AWS keynote on October 11, 2026, succeeding Nova 2. The lineup ships as Nova 3 Micro, Lite, and Pro tiers plus a new Nova 3 Act variant tuned specifically for tool-calling and agentic workflows. Nova 3 Pro's context window reaches 1,000,000 tokens, and Amazon says the family was trained using AWS Trainium3 chips in what it describes as its largest in-house training run to date. All four variants are available day-0 in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q, and Alexa+.
This is a sourced directory entry. Features and capabilities are reported in the linked sources; this entry does not document independent Aymorphic testing.
Key features
- Nova 3 Micro, Lite, and Pro tiers plus a Nova 3 Act variant tuned for tool-calling/agentic workflows
- 1,000,000-token context window on Nova 3 Pro
- Native integration with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Strands for agent orchestration
- Trained on AWS Trainium3 chips; Amazon's largest in-house training run to date
- Day-0 availability in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q, and Alexa+
Use cases
- Enterprise agentic workflows on AWS via Bedrock AgentCore and Strands
- Long-document analysis and summarization at 1M-token context
- Cost-sensitive high-volume inference via Nova 3 Micro
- Consumer assistant tasks through Alexa+
Pricing
Illustrative Bedrock on-demand pricing: Nova 3 Micro $0.035/$0.14 per million input/output tokens, Nova 3 Lite $0.06/$0.24, Nova 3 Pro $0.80/$3.20.
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Dates and sources
- Released
- 11 Oct 2026
- Record updated
- 14 Oct 2026
- Record last checked
- 14 Oct 2026