Connecting Google Drive to Amazon Q Business

Google Drive is a cloud-based file storage service. Amazon Q Business can connect to your Google Drive instances. You can connect Google Drive instance to Amazon Q—using either the AWS Management Console or the CreateDataSource API—and create an Amazon Q web experience.

Topics

• Known limitations for the Amazon Q Business Google Drive connector
• Google Drive connector overview
• Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Google Drive
• Connecting Amazon Q Business to Google Drive using the console
• Connecting Amazon Q Business to GoogleDrive using APIs
• Connecting Amazon Q Business to Google Drive using AWS CloudFormation
• How Amazon Q Business connector crawls GoogleDrive ACLs
• Google Drive data source connector field mappings
• IAM role for Amazon Q Business Google Drive connector
• Troubleshooting your Amazon Q Business Google Drive connector

Learn more

• For an overview of the Amazon Q web experience creation process using IAM Identity Center, see Configuring an application using IAM Identity Center.

• For an overview of the Amazon Q web experience creation process using AWS Identity and Access Management, see Configuring an application using IAM.

• For an overview of connector features, see Data source connector concepts.

• For information about connector configuration best practices, see Connector configuration best practices.

Known limitations for the Amazon Q Business Google Drive connector

The Amazon Q Google Drive connector has the following known limitations:

• To make a document available to multiple users in Amazon Q Business, you need to explicitly add each user by their email address. Only documents with specific ACLs, including folder-level ACLs, will be available to your users for query responses within Amazon Q. The Anyone with the link feature is not supported.

• Custom field mapping is not available for Google Drive connector as the Google Drive UI does not support creating custom fields.

• Google Drive API does not support retrieving comments from a permamently deleted file. Comments are retrievable, however, for trashed files. When a file is trashed, the Amazon Q connector will delete comments from the Amazon Q index.

• Google Drive API does not return comments present in a .docx file.