Amazon Web Services → Microsoft Azure
Azure equivalent of Amazon Nova
Amazon Nova's closest Azure counterpart is Microsoft's own models in Foundry (MAI and Phi, plus Model Router).
About Amazon Nova
| Provider | Amazon Web Services |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | Amazon's first-party foundation models. Understanding (Nova Micro/Lite/Pro, Nova 2 Lite), creative (Nova Canvas image, Nova Reel video), speech-to-speech (Nova 2 Sonic), and multimodal embeddings. |
| Documentation | docs.aws.amazon.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
Azure mappings (2)
| Capability | Azure equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud provider's own foundation models | Microsoft models in Foundry (MAI, Phi, Model Router), Microsoft Foundry Models (incl. Azure OpenAI) | Partial match |
| Real-time speech-to-speech AI | Azure Speech, Foundry Agent Service | Partial match |
Generative AI platforms & models(1)
Cloud provider's own foundation models Partial match
Amazon Nova's closest Azure counterpart is Microsoft's own models in Foundry (MAI and Phi, plus Model Router). But Microsoft's flagship LLMs on Azure are mainly OpenAI GPT models, so there's no one-to-one family match.
- Nova covers understanding (Micro/Lite/Pro, Nova 2 Lite), creative (Canvas image, Reel video), speech-to-speech (Nova 2 Sonic), and multimodal embeddings, all from Amazon.
- On Azure, first-party models include the MAI models (for example MAI-Image), Phi small language models, Model Router, and healthcare AI models. General-purpose frontier LLM work on Azure usually means Azure OpenAI GPT models, which are "sold by Azure" but built by OpenAI.
- For speech-to-speech, Nova Sonic maps more naturally to Azure Voice Live or realtime audio models than to a Microsoft-built LLM.
Speech & conversational AI(1)
Real-time speech-to-speech AI Partial match
Amazon Nova Sonic (speech-to-speech on Bedrock) maps to Azure Voice Live and voice-based prompt agents in Foundry (preview), which also support realtime audio models.
- Nova 2 Sonic is a single speech-to-speech foundation model you call through Bedrock's bidirectional streaming.
- Voice Live is a managed orchestration service (speech recognition, turn-taking, model interaction, synthesis) that works with realtime models or a cascaded STT → LLM → TTS chain. Foundry voice agents add telephony and avatar options (preview).