Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model released by AWS, capable of processing text, images, and video inputs. It features a 1M-token context window, configurable thinking effort (low/medium/high), and built-in tools such as code interpreter and web grounding, making it well-suited for everyday enterprise workloads like document processing, information extraction, and multi-step agentic workflows. Nova 2 Lite delivers competitive benchmark performance against models such as Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemini 2.5 Flash, while maintaining significantly lower cost.