Document history
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Latest documentation update: December 4, 2024
The following table describes important changes in each release of Amazon Q Business.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Amazon Q Business now supports Amazon Kendra GenAI Enterprise Edition indices | You can now use an Amazon Kendra GenAI Enterprise Edition index with Amazon Q Business. For more information, see Creating an index for an Amazon Q Business application. | December 4, 2024 |
Q Apps plugins support | Q Apps now supports all Amazon Q Business plugins (built-in and custom, including legacy built-in plugins) with more supported actions. For more information, see Using plugins in Q Apps. | December 3, 2024 |
New managed policy: QBusinessQuicksightPluginPolicy | The QBusinessQuicksightPluginPolicy managed policy provides permissions for an Amazon Q Business application to communicate with Amazon QuickSight. | December 3, 2024 |
New QuickSight plugin | You can now use a new fully integrated QuickSight plugin to get insights from structured data through Amazon QuickSight. For more information, see Configuring the QuickSight plugin to get insights from structured data. | December 3, 2024 |
New Amazon Q Business plugins | Amazon Q Business now has an updated plugins experience with new plugins and more supported actions. For more information, see Plugins. | December 3, 2024 |
Amazon QuickSight-integrated Amazon Q Business application | You can now create an Amazon QuickSight-integrated Amazon Q Business application. For more information, see Creating an Amazon QuickSight-integrated Amazon Q Business application. | December 3, 2024 |
Amazon Q Business now supports customizing visual themes | Amazon Q Business offers customization options for your web experience, allowing you to align the interface visual elements with your organization's branding and user needs. For more information, see Customizing visual themes. | December 3, 2024 |
Amazon Q Business now support data accessors | Amazon Q Business data accessors feature allows you to securely share your enterprise data with verified software providers (ISVs) using the Amazon Q index. For more information, see Data Accessors. | December 3, 2024 |
Amazon Q Business introduces Amazon Q index for software providers | The Amazon Q index allows independent software vendors (ISVs) to access and integrate a company's data into their applications, enhancing their customer's end user productivity by providing seamless access to company data sources across the ISV's applications. . For more information, see Amazon Q index for software providers (ISVs). | December 3, 2024 |
Introducing the Amazon Q Business Slack integration | The Amazon Q Business can enhance your users' Slack experience by increasing their productivity, bringing Amazon Q Business's AI-powered assistance directly into their daily workflows. . For more information, see Integrating Slack with Amazon Q Business. | December 1, 2024 |
Introducing the Amazon Q Business Microsoft Teams integration | The Amazon Q Business can enhance your users' Microsoft Teams experience by increasing their productivity, bringing Amazon Q Business's AI-powered assistance directly into their daily workflows. . For more information, see Integrating Microsoft Team with Amazon Q Business. | December 1, 2024 |
Extracting semantic meaning from embedded visual content | Amazon Q Business can now extract semantic meaning from embedded visual content. For more information, see Extracting semantic meaning from embedded visual content. | December 1, 2024 |
Data collection in Amazon Q Apps | You can now create a data collection app in Q Apps to gather multiple pieces of information from app users. A data collection app can leverage generative AI to analyze the collected data, identify common themes, summarize ideas, and provide actionable insights. For more information, see Data collection in Amazon Q Apps. | November 26, 2024 |
Introducing the Amazon Q Business browser extensions | The Amazon Q Business browser extension enhances your users' web browsing experience. For more information, see Enhancing web browsing with Amazon Q Business. | November 22, 2024 |
Smartsheet connector | Amazon Q Business now supports a Smartsheet data source connector. For more information, see Smartsheet. | November 21, 2024 |
Recent file support | Amazon Q Business now supports recent files. For more information, see IAM role for an Amazon Q Business web experience to update your policy to support this feature. | November 21, 2024 |
Cross-region inference in Amazon Q Business | Amazon Q Business can now select the optimal region within your geography to process your inference request, maximizing available compute resources and model availability. For more information, see Cross-region inference in Amazon Q Business. | November 19, 2024 |
Custom labels for Amazon Q Apps | Administrators can now customize the labels available for published Q Apps. For more information, see Custom labels for Amazon Q Apps. | November 7, 2024 |
Service-linked role support for Amazon Q Apps | Amazon Q Apps now supports a service-linked role for creating applications with enabled Q Apps. For more information, see Using Service Linked Role for Q Apps . | October 22, 2024 |
Q App Analytics dashboard | You can now use a new Q App Analytics dashboard to learn how your users are interacting with Q Apps. For example, you can identify the average daily users creating, updating, or running Q Apps over a specific time period. For more information, see Viewing Amazon Q Business and Q App metrics in analytics dashboards. | October 22, 2024 |
New managed policy for Amazon Q Apps: QAppsServiceRolePolicy | The QAppsServiceRolePolicy managed policy provides permissions to publish metrics. | October 22, 2024 |
Monitor user conversations with Amazon CloudWatch Logs | You can use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to monitor and analyze user conversations and response feedback in Amazon Q Business. For more information, see Monitoring Amazon Q Business user conversations with Amazon CloudWatch Logs. | October 22, 2024 |
Monitor Q Apps with Amazon CloudWatch | You can now monitor Q Apps with Amazon CloudWatch metrics. For more information, see Monitoring Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q Apps with Amazon CloudWatch . | October 22, 2024 |
Embed Amazon Q Business into trusted websites | Admins can embed the Amazon Q Business assistant within trusted websites. This allows end users to receive immediate, permissions-aware responses from enterprise data sources, with citations from Amazon Q. For more information, see Amazon Q embedded. | October 15, 2024 |
Admins can now verify Amazon Q Apps | Admins can review your published apps and update the status to Verified if they determine the app meets your organization's criteria. For more information, see Verifying Amazon Q Apps. | September 10, 2024 |
Identity federation through IAM support | You can now use IAM Federation to manage end user access to Amazon Q Business applications. For more information, see Creating an Amazon Q Business application using IAM Federation. | August 22, 2024 |
Cross-region IAM Identity Center support | You can now create cross-region IAM Identity Center and Amazon Q Business integrations to manage end user access for your application. For more information, see Creating a cross-region IAM Identity Center integration. | July 25, 2024 |
Introducing new CW metrics for Amazon Q Business | Introducing new chat metrics for Amazon Q. For more information, see Amazon Q Business chat metrics. | July 24, 2024 |
General availability (GA) of Amazon Q Apps | You can now create lightweight, purpose-built Amazon Q Apps within your broader Amazon Q Business application environment. For more information, see Amazon Q Apps. | July 10, 2024 |
Amazon Q Business personalized chats | Amazon Q Business now supports personalized chat responses for end users. For more information, see Personalizing chat responses. | July 5, 2024 |
Amazon Q Business scanned PDF support | Amazon Q Business now supports uploading scanned PDFs into data source connectors and applications. For more information, see Supported document types. | July 2, 2024 |
Service-linked role support | Amazon Q Business now supports a service-linked role for creating applications. For more information, see Using service-linked roles. | April 30, 2024 |
Preview release of Amazon Q Apps | You can now create lightweight, purpose-built Amazon Q Apps within your broader Amazon Q Business application environment. For more information, see Amazon Q Apps. | April 30, 2024 |
Migrating Amazon Q Business applications to IAM Identity Center | Amazon Q Business now supports migrating your SAML 2.0 compliant application to IAM Identity Center. For more details, see Migrating an Amazon Q Business application. | April 30, 2024 |
Amazon Q Business now supports creating custom plugins | Create custom plugins for your Amazon Q Business application. For more details, see Creating custom plugins. | April 30, 2024 |
Amazon Q Business now supports a streaming chat API | Amazon Q Business now supports a streaming chat API. For more details, see Chat and Setting up a streaming chat. | April 30, 2024 |
Amazon Q Business general release | Amazon Q Business is now generally available. | April 30, 2024 |
Amazon Q Business now integrates with IAM Identity Center | You can now use IAM Identity Center to manage user access for your Amazon Q Business application. For more details, see How Amazon Q Business works. | April 16, 2024 |
Amazon Q Business admin controls and guardrails update | The Amazon Q Business now supports new web experience chat modes, configurable using admin controls. For more details, see Admin controls and guardrails and Conversation settings. | April 16, 2024 |
Amazon Q Business (For Business Use) guide name update | The Amazon Q Business (For Business Use) Developer Guide is now called the Amazon Q Business User Guide. | March 29, 2024 |
Boosting chat results using document attributes | Amazon Q Business now supports boosting content used to generate chat responses using document attributes. For more information, see Boosting using document attributes. | February 14, 2024 |
Preview release | This is the initial preview release of the Amazon Q Business (For Business Use) Developer Guide. | November 28, 2023 |
