Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Gmail

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

In Gmail, make sure you have:

• Created a Google Cloud Platform admin account and have created a Google Cloud project.

• Activated the Gmail API and Admin SDK API in your admin account.

• Created a service account and downloaded a JSON private key for your Gmail. For information about how to create and access your private key, see Create a service account key and Service account credentials on the Google Cloud website.

• Copied your admin account email, your service account email, and your private key to use for authentication.

• Added the following Oauth scopes (using an admin role) for your user and the shared directories you want to index:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user.readonly

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly

In your AWS account, make sure you have:

• Created an IAM role for your data source and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the IAM role.

• Stored your Gmail 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.