# Subscribe to Amazon Nova Forge
Subscribe to Nova Forge

To access Amazon Nova Forge features, complete the following steps:

1. Verify administrator access to the AWS account.

1. Navigate to the SageMaker AI console and [ request access to Amazon Nova Forge](nova-forge.md).

1. Wait for the Amazon Nova team to email a confirmation after the subscription request is approved.

1. Tag your execution role with the `forge-subscription` tag. This tag is required for accessing Amazon Nova Forge features and checkpoints. Add the following tag to your execution role:
   + Key: `forge-subscription`
   + Value: `true`

**Note**  
Standard Amazon Nova features remain available without a Forge subscription. Amazon Nova Forge is designed for building custom frontier models with control and flexibility across all model training phases.