Building intelligent applications requires powerful, cost-effective AI. Today, we’re simplifying that process by making Amazon’s cutting-edge Nova models directly available via Heroku Managed Inference and Agents . Provisioning these models is as simple as attaching the add-on to your Heroku application, providing a direct, managed path for developers and businesses to leverage a new class of powerful and cost-effective AI models with unparalleled simplicity. Heroku AI: balancing performance and cost with Nova models The Amazon Nova family of models is engineered to provide an exceptional balance of performance and cost. Both nova-pro and nova-lite are optimized for modern development patterns like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and building powerful AI agents. While these models have powerful multimodal capabilities, our initial integration on Heroku focuses on their robust text-to-text functionality . Support for multimodal capabilities will be introduced in a future release.…