Plain-English Summary
AWS’s generative video model for creating short video clips from prompts and images.
Amazon Nova Reel
AWS’s generative video model for creating short video clips from prompts and images.
Amazon Nova
Video
GA
Open weights: No
API: Yes — Amazon Bedrock
Technical Notes
Proprietary text/image-to-video generation model delivered through Amazon Bedrock.
Best For
Advertising clips, product videos, storyboards, creative prototyping
Watch Out For
Video generation is slower and more expensive than image generation and has duration constraints.
Model Specs
- Maker
- Amazon Web Services
- Country
- Not listed
- Family
- Amazon Nova
- Type
- Video
- Release date
- 2024-12-03
- Date confidence
- Exact
- Status
- GA
- Context window
- Varies
- Max output
- Not listed
- Parameters
- Not disclosed
- Active parameters
- Not disclosed
- Architecture
- Proprietary video generation model
- Reasoning
- Not applicable
- Tool calling
- No
- Structured output
- No
- API available
- Yes — Amazon Bedrock
- Open weights
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- License
- Proprietary
- Inputs
- Text, image
- Outputs
- Video
- Approx. price
- See provider pricing
- How to access
- Provider website
- Model / API ID
- amazon.nova-reel
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not publicly disclosed
- Fine-tuning
- Prompting and video controls
- Completeness
- 81 %
- Verified
- Jul 18, 2026
- Snapshot date
- Jul 18, 2026
- Source
- Official source