Data collection in Amazon Q Apps

A data collection app is an Amazon Q App with one or more form cards that collect multiple pieces of information from app users. For example, you might use a data collection app to conduct team surveys, organize project retrospectives, collect ideas for next year's goals, or collect questions for a town hall. These apps can leverage generative AI to analyze the collected data, identify common themes, summarize ideas, and provide actionable insights.

When creating a data collection app, you add one or more data collection form cards. You can also add output cards that use generative AI to analyze or summarize participants' data. For each form card, you add one or more text input fields. For example, a user can submit an idea and the reason to prioritize. Forms can be configured to allow multiple submissions by the same user. For example, users can submit multiple ideas for next year's goals.

After you share your app, you and other users can open it and start collecting data. When anyone opens the app and starts a data collection, they become a data collection owner. An owner can own only one active data collection per app. More than one user can start a data collection for the same app. The data collection owner shares the data collection with participants, controls access to the forms and data collection results, and controls when to start and stop accepting submissions.

As the owner of a data collection, choose when reveal or hide the data from the form. For example, your app might collect ideas from the team for next year. Based on the collected data, you can choose to hold off on revealing the responses and any generative AI analysis or summaries.

Permissions requirements

For users to create and use data collection apps, the web experience IAM role for your Amazon Q Business environment must have the following permissions for session resources:

For more information, including a policy example, see IAM permissions for using Amazon Q Apps .