Connecting Slack to Amazon Q Business
Slack is an enterprise communications app that lets users send messages and attachments through various public and private channels. You can connect your Slack instance to Amazon Q Business—using either the AWS Management Console, CLI, or the CreateDataSource API—and create an Amazon Q web experience.
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For an overview of the Amazon Q web experience creation process using IAM Identity Center, see Configuring an application using IAM Identity Center.
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For an overview of the Amazon Q web experience creation process using AWS Identity and Access Management, see Configuring an application using IAM.
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For an overview of connector features, see Data source connector concepts.
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For information about connector configuration best practices, see Connector configuration best practices.
Known limitations for the Slack connector
The Slack connector has the following known limitations:
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Due to API limitations, the Amazon Q Slack connector can only retrieve a maximum of 100 pages, with 100 files per page. Given this limitation, the Slack connector can only crawl a maximum of 10,000 files per channel.
