This section describes how to use the playgrounds in the AWS console to submit a text prompt to Amazon Nova models and generate a text or image response. Before you run the following examples, you should check that you have fulfilled the following prerequisites:
Prerequisites
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You have an AWS account and have permissions to access a role in that account with the necessary permissions for Amazon Bedrock. Otherwise, follow the steps at Getting started with Amazon Bedrock.
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You've requested access to the Amazon Nova models. Otherwise, follow the steps at Request access to an Amazon Bedrock foundation model and request access to Amazon Nova Lite and Amazon Nova Canvas.
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You're in the US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) Region. To change regions, choose the Region name at the top right of the console, next to your IAM role. Then select US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1).
Requesting model acccess
Complete the following steps to request access to Amazon Nova models.
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Open the Amazon Bedrock console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/
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From the left navigation pane, choose Model access under Bedrock configurations.
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In What is model access, choose Enable specific models.
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Choose Nova Lite and Nova Canvas from the Base models list. The examples in this section use only these two models, but you can request access to all of the Amazon Nova models. Then choose Next
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On the Review and submit page, choose Submit.
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Refresh the Base models table. If you will see the Amazon Nova models in the Access granted status you are ready to proceed to the next parts of the example.
Note that the region from which you request model access is the only region from which you can use the models.
Explore the text playground
The following example demonstrates how to use the text playground:
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Open the Amazon Bedrock console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/
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From the left navigation pane, choose Chat / Text under Playgrounds.
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Choose Select model and select a provider and model. For this example, select Amazon then Nova Lite. Then choose Apply
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Select a default prompt from below the text panel, or enter a prompt into the text panel, such as
Describe the purpose of a "hello world" program in one line. -
To explore the image understanding capabilities of Amazon Nova, you can upload an image in JPEG, PNG, GIF, or WEBP format that is less than or equal to 20MB. After the image is uploaded, you can ask Amazon Nova about the image.
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To explore the document understanding capabilities of Amazon Nova, you can upload a documents in CSV, DOC, DOCX, HTML, MD, PDF, TXT, XLS, or XLSX format that is less than or equal to 4.5MB. After the documents are uploaded, you can ask Amazon Nova about the documents.
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To explore the video understanding capabilities of Amazon Nova, you can upload one video in MKV, MOV, or MP4 format that is less than or equal to 25MB. You can use Amazon S3 for videos up to 1GB. After the video is uploaded, you can ask Amazon Nova about the video.
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Choose Run to run inference on the model. The generated text appears below your prompt in the text panel.
Explore the image playground
The following example demonstrates how to use the image playground.
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Open the Amazon Bedrock console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/
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From the left navigation pane, choose Image / Video under Playgrounds.
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Choose Select model and select a provider and model. For this example, select Amazon then select Nova Canvas. Then choose Apply
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Select a default prompt from below the text panel, or enter a prompt into the text panel, such as
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In the Configurations pane, change the Number of images to
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Choose Run to run inference on the model. The generated image appears above the prompt.
