Upload files and chat in Amazon Q Business

End users using the Amazon Q Business web experience can upload documents that might not be stored in your organization’s data sources and knowledge base. They can use the uploaded documents to ask questions and summarize or analyze data that's based on the content of the uploaded documents. The uploaded documents aren't stored and are available for use only for the conversation in which the documents are uploaded.

You can upload up to 5 files during a conversation. The size of each file you upload must be 10 MB or less. The total parsed content for all files combined have to be under 105,000 characters.

Amazon Q Business supports specific document types for upload. To learn more about the document types that can be uploaded, see Supported document formats in Amazon Q Business.

If you’re uploading Comma Separated Values (CSV) or Microsoft Excel (XLS and XLSX) documents into chat, Amazon Q Business performs best for tables with approximately 4 columns and 10 rows.