Connecting Amazon S3 to Amazon Q Business

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that stores data as objects within storage buckets. You can connect an Amazon S3 instance to Amazon Q Business—using either the AWS Management Console or the CreateDataSource API—and create an Amazon Q web experience.

After you integrate Amazon Q with Amazon S3, users can ask questions about the content stored in Amazon S3. For example, a user might ask about the main points discussed in a blog post on cloud security, the installation steps outlined in a user guide, findings from a case study on hybrid cloud usage, market trends noted in an analyst report, or key takeaways from a whitepaper on data encryption. This integration helps users to quickly find the specific information they need, improving their understanding and ability to make informed business decisions.

Important

Amazon Q Business supports source attribution with citations. However, if you don't specify the _source_uri metadata field when you add metadata to your Amazon S3 bucket, the source attribution links returned by Amazon Q Business in the chat results point to the Amazon S3 bucket that contains the document, instead of the document itself. To learn how to add metadata for your Amazon S3 connector, see Adding document metadata in Amazon S3.

Note

To learn how to create an Amazon S3 bucket, see Creating a bucket in the Amazon Simple Storage Service User Guide.

Topics

• Known limitations for the Amazon S3 connector
• Amazon S3 connector overview
• Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Amazon S3
• Connecting Amazon Q Business to Amazon S3 using the console
• Connecting Amazon Q Business to Amazon S3 using APIs
• Connecting Amazon Q Business to Amazon S3 using AWS CloudFormation
• Adding document metadata in Amazon S3
• How Amazon Q Business connector crawls Amazon S3 ACLs
• Amazon S3 data source connector field mappings
• IAM role for Amazon S3 connector
• Troubleshooting your Amazon S3 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 S3 connector

The Amazon S3 connector has the following known limitations:

• The Amazon S3 bucket must be in the same AWS Region as your Amazon Q index, and your index must have permissions to access the bucket that contains your documents.