Model Architectures · Practitioner
Amazon Nova: AWS's Own Foundation Model Family
Amazon's first-party models — understanding, generation and multimodal — and when the price-performance case for Nova beats reaching for a frontier model.
- 35 min lesson
- beginner level
- AWS AI Track
- Narrated presentation
What you’ll learn
- Understanding models (Micro, Lite, Pro, Premier, Nova 2) versus creative models (Canvas, Reel)
- Nova Sonic for speech-to-speech and Nova Act for agentic browser use
- Capability tiers as a cost-control lever
- Implicit prompt caching on Nova text prompts
- Model cascading: cheap model first, escalate on signal
- AI Service Cards as risk-review evidence
Inside this lesson
A narrated, slide-by-slide presentation with 1 prediction exercise, 1 knowledge check, 4 videos. You answer as you go, and the platform checks your work.