Nova 2 Lite (Global)

Amazon Nova 2 Lite is Amazon's generally available multimodal reasoning model within the first-party Nova 2 family on AWS, and the global Bedrock inference profile is surfaced under the identifier global.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0, alongside regional us., eu., and jp. profiles for the same base model. The family itself is intentionally split into distinct endpoints — Lite, Sonic for real-time speech, Multimodal Embeddings for retrieval vectors, and a still-gated Pro preview — so each surface ships its own contract rather than behaving as a single interchangeable model. That separation is explicit in the family documentation, which warns that sharing the Nova 2 name does not imply a shared API, context contract, output type, routing profile, pricing unit, service tier, or deployment model, and recommends designing against the specific surface a workload actually needs.

In practice, Nova 2 Lite is framed as the everyday reasoning and agents backbone of the Nova 2 line, sitting between the speech-focused Sonic endpoint and the higher-complexity Pro preview. The family-level framing emphasizes multimodal reasoning and agent-style workflows over single-modality tasks, which makes Lite the natural target for product teams that want a broadly capable default model while reserving Pro for more demanding workloads once it becomes generally available. Choosing the global profile routes requests through Bedrock's cross-region inference layer, which is useful when workloads need to span AWS geographies, while teams with strict data-residency requirements can opt into the matching regional profile instead.