Nova Canvas (N. Virginia)

Foundation model available in N. Virginia. Direct inference without cross-region routing.

Provider: All Amazon models | AWS Bedrock

Inference regions: us-east-1

API Endpoint

https://bedrock-runtime.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Quick Start (Python)

Install: pip install boto3

import boto3

client = boto3.client("bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")

response = client.converse(
    modelId="amazon.nova-canvas-v1",
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": [{"text": "Hello, how are you?"}],
        }
    ],
    inferenceConfig={
        "maxTokens": 1024,
        "temperature": 0.7,
    },
)

print(response["output"]["message"]["content"][0]["text"])

Additional examples: Basic invoke, Streaming

Supported Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
taskType	enum	Type of image generation task.
width	integer	Output image width in pixels. (320–4096)
height	integer	Output image height in pixels. (320–4096)
quality	enum	Output quality. Default: standard.
numberOfImages	integer	Number of images to generate. (1–5) Default: 1.
cfgScale	float	How closely the image follows the prompt. (1.1–10) Default: 6.5.
seed	integer	Seed for reproducible generation. (0–858993459)

Feature Guides

On-Demand Inference

Default mode. Pay per token with no upfront commitment.

Documentation

Image Generation

Nova Canvas supports multiple image generation tasks including text-to-image, inpainting, and background removal.

Documentation