Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic: Smarter Voice Agents with Better Reasoning

Amazon just dropped Nova 2.5 Sonic, a speech-to-speech model that lets you build voice agents that actually understand context and handle multi-step tasks—think customer service bots that can look up orders and process returns in one conversation. It's now live in US East, US West, Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions on Amazon Bedrock, with lower latency and improved reasoning that makes interactions feel more natural.