# Welcome
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## QBusiness
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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 [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/business-use-dg/what-is.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/business-use-dg/what-is.html).

For an overview of the Amazon Q Business APIs, see [Overview of Amazon Q Business API operations](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/business-use-dg/api-ref.html#api-overview).

For information about the IAM access control permissions you need to use this API, see [IAM roles for Amazon Q Business](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/business-use-dg/iam-roles.html) in the *Amazon Q Business User Guide*.

The following resources provide additional information about using the Amazon Q Business API:
+  * [Setting up for Amazon Q Business](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/business-use-dg/setting-up.html) * 
+  * [Amazon Q Business CLI Reference](https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/qbusiness/index.html) * 
+  * [AWS General Reference](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/amazonq.html) * 

## QApps
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The Amazon Q Apps feature capability within Amazon Q Business allows web experience users to create lightweight, purpose-built AI apps to fulfill specific tasks from within their web experience. For example, users can create a Q App that exclusively generates marketing-related content to improve your marketing team's productivity or a Q App for writing customer emails and creating promotional content using a certain style of voice, tone, and branding. For more information on the capabilities, see [Amazon Q Apps capabilities](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/deploy-experience-iam-role.html#q-apps-actions) in the *Amazon Q Business User Guide*. 

For an overview of the Amazon Q App APIs, see [Overview of Amazon Q Apps API operations](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_Operations_QApps.html).

For information about the IAM access control permissions you need to use the Amazon Q Apps API, see [ IAM role for the Amazon Q Business web experience including Amazon Q Apps](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/deploy-experience-iam-role.html) in the *Amazon Q Business User Guide*.