Gmail connector overview - Amazon Q Business

Gmail connector overview

The following table gives an overview of the Gmail connector and its supported features.

Category Feature Support
Security Authentication type Google Service Account
Authentication credentials

Google service account

  • Google service account

  • Admin account email

  • Client email

  • Private key
Access Control List (ACL) crawling Yes. For more information, see ACL crawling.
Identity crawling No
VPC Yes
Crawl features Custom metadata No
Entities Yes. The following entities are supported:

  • Messages

  • Attachments

See What is a document? for more details on what each connector crawls as a document.
Field mappings Yes. Supports default field mappings. For more information, see Field mappings.
Filters Yes. The following filters are supported:

  • Include/ exclude message attachments

  • Include content by date range.

  • Include/exclude content by email from, to, cc, and bcc domains

  • Include/exclude content by keywords in subjects

  • Include/exclude content by label name

  • Include/exclude content by file name and file type
Sync mode Supports full and incremental sync.
File types Supports all files supported by Amazon Q.