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Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Amazon S3

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Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Amazon S3 - Amazon Q Business

Before you begin, make sure that you have completed the following prerequisites.

In Amazon S3, make sure you have:

  • Created an Amazon S3 bucket and copied it's name.

    Note

    Your bucket must be in the same AWS Region as your Amazon Q index, and your index must have permissions to access the bucket that contains your documents.

  • If using Amazon VPC with Amazon S3 connector, made sure that you have assigned an Amazon S3 endpoint to your virtual private cloud (VPC). For more information about configuring an Amazon S3 connector with Amazon VPC, see Using Amazon VPC with Amazon S3.

In your AWS account, make sure you have:

  • Created a Amazon Q Business application.

  • Created a Amazon Q Business retriever and added an index.

  • Created an IAM role for your data source and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the IAM role.

  • Stored your Amazon S3 authentication credentials in an AWS Secrets Manager secret and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the secret.

    Note

    If you’re a console user, you can create the IAM role and Secrets Manager secret as part of configuring your Amazon Q application on the console.

For a list of things to consider while configuring your data source, see Data source connector configuration best practices.

Note

For more information on connecting Amazon S3 to Amazon Q Business, see Discover insights from Amazon Simple Storage Service with Amazon Q S3 connector in the AWS Machine Learning Blog.

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