QBusinessClient

This is the Amazon Q Business API Reference. Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative-AI powered enterprise chat assistant that you can deploy within your organization. Amazon Q Business enhances employee productivity by supporting key tasks such as question-answering, knowledge discovery, writing email messages, summarizing text, drafting document outlines, and brainstorming ideas. Users ask questions of Amazon Q Business and get answers that are presented in a conversational manner. For an introduction to the service, see the Amazon Q Business User Guide  .

For an overview of the Amazon Q Business APIs, see Overview of Amazon Q Business API operations .

For information about the IAM access control permissions you need to use this API, see IAM roles for Amazon Q Business  in the Amazon Q Business User Guide.

The following resources provide additional information about using the Amazon Q Business API:

Installation

NPM
npm install @aws-sdk/client-qbusiness
Yarn
yarn add @aws-sdk/client-qbusiness
pnpm
pnpm add @aws-sdk/client-qbusiness

QBusinessClient Operations

Command
Summary
AssociatePermissionCommand

Adds or updates a permission policy for a Amazon Q Business application, allowing cross-account access for an ISV. This operation creates a new policy statement for the specified Amazon Q Business application. The policy statement defines the IAM actions that the ISV is allowed to perform on the Amazon Q Business application's resources.

BatchDeleteDocumentCommand

Asynchronously deletes one or more documents added using the BatchPutDocument API from an Amazon Q Business index.

You can see the progress of the deletion, and any error messages related to the process, by using CloudWatch.

BatchPutDocumentCommand

Adds one or more documents to an Amazon Q Business index.

You use this API to:

  • ingest your structured and unstructured documents and documents stored in an Amazon S3 bucket into an Amazon Q Business index.

  • add custom attributes to documents in an Amazon Q Business index.

  • attach an access control list to the documents added to an Amazon Q Business index.

You can see the progress of the deletion, and any error messages related to the process, by using CloudWatch.

CancelSubscriptionCommand

Unsubscribes a user or a group from their pricing tier in an Amazon Q Business application. An unsubscribed user or group loses all Amazon Q Business feature access at the start of next month.

ChatCommand

Starts or continues a streaming Amazon Q Business conversation.

ChatSyncCommand

Starts or continues a non-streaming Amazon Q Business conversation.

CreateApplicationCommand

Creates an Amazon Q Business application.

There are new tiers for Amazon Q Business. Not all features in Amazon Q Business Pro are also available in Amazon Q Business Lite. For information on what's included in Amazon Q Business Lite and what's included in Amazon Q Business Pro, see Amazon Q Business tiers . You must use the Amazon Q Business console to assign subscription tiers to users.

An Amazon Q Apps service linked role will be created if it's absent in the Amazon Web Services account when QAppsConfiguration is enabled in the request. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for Q Apps .

When you create an application, Amazon Q Business may securely transmit data for processing from your selected Amazon Web Services region, but within your geography. For more information, see Cross region inference in Amazon Q Business .

CreateDataAccessorCommand

Creates a new data accessor for an ISV to access data from a Amazon Q Business application. The data accessor is an entity that represents the ISV's access to the Amazon Q Business application's data. It includes the IAM role ARN for the ISV, a friendly name, and a set of action configurations that define the specific actions the ISV is allowed to perform and any associated data filters. When the data accessor is created, an IAM Identity Center application is also created to manage the ISV's identity and authentication for accessing the Amazon Q Business application.

CreateDataSourceCommand

Creates a data source connector for an Amazon Q Business application.

CreateDataSource is a synchronous operation. The operation returns 200 if the data source was successfully created. Otherwise, an exception is raised.

CreateIndexCommand

Creates an Amazon Q Business index.

To determine if index creation has completed, check the Status field returned from a call to DescribeIndex. The Status field is set to ACTIVE when the index is ready to use.

Once the index is active, you can index your documents using the BatchPutDocument   API or the CreateDataSource   API.

CreatePluginCommand

Creates an Amazon Q Business plugin.

CreateRetrieverCommand

Adds a retriever to your Amazon Q Business application.

CreateSubscriptionCommand

Subscribes an IAM Identity Center user or a group to a pricing tier for an Amazon Q Business application.

Amazon Q Business offers two subscription tiers: Q_LITE and Q_BUSINESS. Subscription tier determines feature access for the user. For more information on subscriptions and pricing tiers, see Amazon Q Business pricing .

CreateUserCommand

Creates a universally unique identifier (UUID) mapped to a list of local user ids within an application.

CreateWebExperienceCommand

Creates an Amazon Q Business web experience.

DeleteApplicationCommand

Deletes an Amazon Q Business application.

DeleteAttachmentCommand

Deletes an attachment associated with a specific Amazon Q Business conversation.

DeleteChatControlsConfigurationCommand

Deletes chat controls configured for an existing Amazon Q Business application.

DeleteConversationCommand

Deletes an Amazon Q Business web experience conversation.

DeleteDataAccessorCommand

Deletes a specified data accessor. This operation permanently removes the data accessor and its associated IAM Identity Center application. Any access granted to the ISV through this data accessor will be revoked.

DeleteDataSourceCommand

Deletes an Amazon Q Business data source connector. While the data source is being deleted, the Status field returned by a call to the DescribeDataSource API is set to DELETING.

DeleteGroupCommand

Deletes a group so that all users and sub groups that belong to the group can no longer access documents only available to that group. For example, after deleting the group "Summer Interns", all interns who belonged to that group no longer see intern-only documents in their chat results.

If you want to delete, update, or replace users or sub groups of a group, you need to use the PutGroup operation. For example, if a user in the group "Engineering" leaves the engineering team and another user takes their place, you provide an updated list of users or sub groups that belong to the "Engineering" group when calling PutGroup.

DeleteIndexCommand

Deletes an Amazon Q Business index.

DeletePluginCommand

Deletes an Amazon Q Business plugin.

DeleteRetrieverCommand

Deletes the retriever used by an Amazon Q Business application.

DeleteUserCommand

Deletes a user by email id.

DeleteWebExperienceCommand

Deletes an Amazon Q Business web experience.

DisassociatePermissionCommand

Removes a permission policy from a Amazon Q Business application, revoking the cross-account access that was previously granted to an ISV. This operation deletes the specified policy statement from the application's permission policy.

GetApplicationCommand

Gets information about an existing Amazon Q Business application.

GetChatControlsConfigurationCommand

Gets information about chat controls configured for an existing Amazon Q Business application.

GetDataAccessorCommand

Retrieves information about a specified data accessor. This operation returns details about the data accessor, including its display name, unique identifier, Amazon Resource Name (ARN), the associated Amazon Q Business application and IAM Identity Center application, the IAM role for the ISV, the action configurations, and the timestamps for when the data accessor was created and last updated.

GetDataSourceCommand

Gets information about an existing Amazon Q Business data source connector.

GetGroupCommand

Describes a group by group name.

GetIndexCommand

Gets information about an existing Amazon Q Business index.

GetMediaCommand

Returns the image bytes corresponding to a media object. If you have implemented your own application with the Chat and ChatSync APIs, and have enabled content extraction from visual data in Amazon Q Business, you use the GetMedia API operation to download the images so you can show them in your UI with responses.

GetPluginCommand

Gets information about an existing Amazon Q Business plugin.

GetPolicyCommand

Retrieves the current permission policy for a Amazon Q Business application. The policy is returned as a JSON-formatted string and defines the IAM actions that are allowed or denied for the application's resources.

GetRetrieverCommand

Gets information about an existing retriever used by an Amazon Q Business application.

GetUserCommand

Describes the universally unique identifier (UUID) associated with a local user in a data source.

GetWebExperienceCommand

Gets information about an existing Amazon Q Business web experience.

ListApplicationsCommand

Lists Amazon Q Business applications.

Amazon Q Business applications may securely transmit data for processing across Amazon Web Services Regions within your geography. For more information, see Cross region inference in Amazon Q Business .

ListAttachmentsCommand

Gets a list of attachments associated with an Amazon Q Business web experience or a list of attachements associated with a specific Amazon Q Business conversation.

ListConversationsCommand

Lists one or more Amazon Q Business conversations.

ListDataAccessorsCommand

Lists the data accessors for a Amazon Q Business application. This operation returns a paginated list of data accessor summaries, including the friendly name, unique identifier, ARN, associated IAM role, and creation/update timestamps for each data accessor.

ListDataSourceSyncJobsCommand

Get information about an Amazon Q Business data source connector synchronization.

ListDataSourcesCommand

Lists the Amazon Q Business data source connectors that you have created.

ListDocumentsCommand

A list of documents attached to an index.

ListGroupsCommand

Provides a list of groups that are mapped to users.

ListIndicesCommand

Lists the Amazon Q Business indices you have created.

ListMessagesCommand

Gets a list of messages associated with an Amazon Q Business web experience.

ListPluginActionsCommand

Lists configured Amazon Q Business actions for a specific plugin in an Amazon Q Business application.

ListPluginTypeActionsCommand

Lists configured Amazon Q Business actions for any plugin type—both built-in and custom.

ListPluginTypeMetadataCommand

Lists metadata for all Amazon Q Business plugin types.

ListPluginsCommand

Lists configured Amazon Q Business plugins.

ListRetrieversCommand

Lists the retriever used by an Amazon Q Business application.

ListSubscriptionsCommand

Lists all subscriptions created in an Amazon Q Business application.

ListTagsForResourceCommand

Gets a list of tags associated with a specified resource. Amazon Q Business applications and data sources can have tags associated with them.

ListWebExperiencesCommand

Lists one or more Amazon Q Business Web Experiences.

PutFeedbackCommand

Enables your end user to provide feedback on their Amazon Q Business generated chat responses.

PutGroupCommand

Create, or updates, a mapping of users—who have access to a document—to groups.

You can also map sub groups to groups. For example, the group "Company Intellectual Property Teams" includes sub groups "Research" and "Engineering". These sub groups include their own list of users or people who work in these teams. Only users who work in research and engineering, and therefore belong in the intellectual property group, can see top-secret company documents in their Amazon Q Business chat results.

There are two options for creating groups, either passing group members inline or using an S3 file via the S3PathForGroupMembers field. For inline groups, there is a limit of 1000 members per group and for provided S3 files there is a limit of 100 thousand members. When creating a group using an S3 file, you provide both an S3 file and a RoleArn for Amazon Q Buisness to access the file.

SearchRelevantContentCommand

Searches for relevant content in a Amazon Q Business application based on a query. This operation takes a search query text, the Amazon Q Business application identifier, and optional filters (such as content source and maximum results) as input. It returns a list of relevant content items, where each item includes the content text, the unique document identifier, the document title, the document URI, any relevant document attributes, and score attributes indicating the confidence level of the relevance.

StartDataSourceSyncJobCommand

Starts a data source connector synchronization job. If a synchronization job is already in progress, Amazon Q Business returns a ConflictException.

StopDataSourceSyncJobCommand

Stops an Amazon Q Business data source connector synchronization job already in progress.

TagResourceCommand

Adds the specified tag to the specified Amazon Q Business application or data source resource. If the tag already exists, the existing value is replaced with the new value.

UntagResourceCommand

Removes a tag from an Amazon Q Business application or a data source.

UpdateApplicationCommand

Updates an existing Amazon Q Business application.

Amazon Q Business applications may securely transmit data for processing across Amazon Web Services Regions within your geography. For more information, see Cross region inference in Amazon Q Business .

An Amazon Q Apps service-linked role will be created if it's absent in the Amazon Web Services account when QAppsConfiguration is enabled in the request. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for Q Apps .

UpdateChatControlsConfigurationCommand

Updates a set of chat controls configured for an existing Amazon Q Business application.

UpdateDataAccessorCommand

Updates an existing data accessor. This operation allows modifying the action configurations (the allowed actions and associated filters) and the display name of the data accessor. It does not allow changing the IAM role associated with the data accessor or other core properties of the data accessor.

UpdateDataSourceCommand

Updates an existing Amazon Q Business data source connector.

UpdateIndexCommand

Updates an Amazon Q Business index.

UpdatePluginCommand

Updates an Amazon Q Business plugin.

UpdateRetrieverCommand

Updates the retriever used for your Amazon Q Business application.

UpdateSubscriptionCommand

Updates the pricing tier for an Amazon Q Business subscription. Upgrades are instant. Downgrades apply at the start of the next month. Subscription tier determines feature access for the user. For more information on subscriptions and pricing tiers, see Amazon Q Business pricing .

UpdateUserCommand

Updates a information associated with a user id.

UpdateWebExperienceCommand

Updates an Amazon Q Business web experience.

QBusinessClient Configuration

Parameter
Type
Description
defaultsMode
Optional
DefaultsMode | Provider<DefaultsMode>
The @smithy/smithy-client#DefaultsMode that will be used to determine how certain default configuration options are resolved in the SDK.
disableHostPrefix
Optional
boolean
Disable dynamically changing the endpoint of the client based on the hostPrefix trait of an operation.
eventStreamSerdeProvider
Optional
EventStreamSerdeProvider
The function that provides necessary utilities for generating and parsing event stream
extensions
Optional
RuntimeExtension[]
Optional extensions
logger
Optional
Logger
Optional logger for logging debug/info/warn/error.
maxAttempts
Optional
number | Provider<number>
Value for how many times a request will be made at most in case of retry.
profile
Optional
string
Setting a client profile is similar to setting a value for the AWS_PROFILE environment variable. Setting a profile on a client in code only affects the single client instance, unlike AWS_PROFILE.When set, and only for environments where an AWS configuration file exists, fields configurable by this file will be retrieved from the specified profile within that file. Conflicting code configuration and environment variables will still have higher priority.For client credential resolution that involves checking the AWS configuration file, the client's profile (this value) will be used unless a different profile is set in the credential provider options.
region
Optional
string | Provider<string>
The AWS region to which this client will send requests
requestHandler
Optional
__HttpHandlerUserInput
The HTTP handler to use or its constructor options. Fetch in browser and Https in Nodejs.
retryMode
Optional
string | Provider<string>
Specifies which retry algorithm to use.
useDualstackEndpoint
Optional
boolean | Provider<boolean>
Enables IPv6/IPv4 dualstack endpoint.
useFipsEndpoint
Optional
boolean | Provider<boolean>
Enables FIPS compatible endpoints.
Additional config fields are described in the full configuration type: QBusinessClientConfig