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

Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Dropbox

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

In Dropbox, make sure you have:

  • Created a Dropbox Advanced account and set up an admin user.

  • Created a Dropbox app with a unique App name, activated Scoped Access. For more information, see Dropbox documentation on creating an app on the Dropbox website.

  • Activated Full Dropbox permissions on the Dropbox console and added the following permissions:

    • files.content.read

    • files.metadata.read

    • sharing.read

    • file_requests.read

    • groups.read

    • team_info.read

    • team_data.content.read

    • team_data_member

  • Noted your Dropbox app key, Dropbox app secret, and Dropbox access token for basic authentication credentials.

  • Generated and copied a temporary Oauth 2.0 access token for your Dropbox app. This token is temporary and expires after 4 hours. For more information, see Dropbox documentation on OAuth authentication on the Dropbox website.

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 Dropbox 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.