Connecting Slack to Amazon Q Business

Slack is an enterprise communications app that lets users send messages and attachments through various public and private channels. You can connect your Slack instance to Amazon Q Business—using either the AWS Management Console, CLI, or the CreateDataSource API—and create an Amazon Q web experience.

Learn more

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

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

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

Topics

• Slack connector overview
• Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Slack
• Setting up Slack for connecting to Amazon Q
• Connecting Amazon Q Business to Slack using the console
• Connecting Amazon Q Business to Slack using APIs
• How Amazon Q Business connector crawls Slack ACLs
• Amazon Q BusinessSlack data source connector field mappings
• IAM role for Amazon Q BusinessSlack connector
• Known limitations for the Amazon Q BusinessSlack connector