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.

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.

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

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.