Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Amazon FSx (Windows) - Amazon Q Business

Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Amazon FSx (Windows)

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

In Amazon FSx (Windows), make sure you have:

  • An Amazon FSx (Windows) account with read and mounting permissions.

  • Noted your Amazon FSx authentication credentials for an Active Directory user account. This includes your Active Directory username and your Domain Name System (DNS) domain name. For example, user@corp.example.com.

  • Copied your Amazon FSx file system ID.

  • Used an Amazon VPC (AWS VPC) where your Amazon FSx resides.

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 FSx (Windows) 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.

You must also make sure you have configured your Amazon VPC instance with a NAT Gateway. For instructions on how to do this, see Step 1 of Connecting to a database in a VPC.