Amazon Q Business subscription tiers and index types

Amazon Q Business offers multiple index types and user subscription tiers. You can choose any combination of index types and user subscriptions for your Amazon Q Business application.

Index types

Amazon Q Business offers two types of indexes: starter index and enterprise index. The following table outlines the features of both.

Starter index

Enterprise index

Ideal use case Proof-of-concept or developer workloads Features Runs in 1 Availability Zone (AZ) – See Availability Zones (data centers in AWS regions) Includes up to 20,000 document capacity or 200 MB of total extracted text (whichever is reached first)* Includes up to 100 hours of data source connector usage (time that it takes to scan and index new, updated, or deleted documents)

Ideal use case Production workloads Features Runs in 3 Availability Zone (AZ) – See Availability Zones (data centers in AWS regions) Includes up to 20,000 document capacity or 200 MB of total extracted text (whichever is reached first)* Includes up to 100 hours of data source connector usage (time that it takes to scan and index new, updated, or deleted documents) Includes customer managed key (CMK) encryption support

*For reference, 5 pages of text that contain approximately 500 words on each page is equivalent to 10 KB of total extracted text.

For detailed pricing information, including examples of charges for index capacity, subscribing and unsubscribing users to Amazon Q Business tiers, upgrading and downgrading Amazon Q Business tiers, and more, see Amazon Q Business Pricing.

User subscription tiers

Amazon Q Business offers two subscription tiers: the Amazon Q Business Lite Plan and the Amazon Q Business Pro Plan. The following table outlines the features of Amazon Q Business Pro and Amazon Q Business Lite.

Important

Amazon Q Business currently only supports managing user subscriptions inside the Amazon Q Business console. The APIs for managing user subscriptions are currently not available.

Amazon Q Business Lite Plan

Amazon Q Business Pro Plan

Ideal use case Optimized for enterprise-wide deployment to all employees (frontline and knowledge workers) Allows end users to ask questions and receive permissions-aware responses from enterprise data sources with citations Helps employees quickly get answers for use cases such as IT, HR, benefits help desks, and other Q&A chatbot use cases at a low cost Features Q&A on knowledge bases: Users can ask questions and get answers from enterprise knowledge bases with citations. Permissions-aware responses: Users only get answers from content that they have access to. Using web experience with single-sign on: Users get access to a web experience user interface with support for single sign-on (IAM Identity Center).

Ideal use case Best suited for knowledge workers and improves productivity across a wide range of tasks Provides the full suite of Amazon Q Business capabilities Includes access to Amazon Q Apps (Preview)* for creating and sharing task automation applications Includes access to custom plugins for actions like submitting time off requests and sending meeting invites through Amazon Q Business Includes Amazon Q integration in Amazon QuickSight Pro for understanding data through executive summaries, context-aware Q&A, and interactive data stories Features Q&A on knowledge bases: Users can ask questions and get answers from enterprise knowledge bases with citations. Permissions-aware responses: Users only get answers from content that they have access to. Using web experience with single-sign on: Users get access to a web experience user interface with support for single sign-on (SSO). Content generation: Users can send queries directly to the foundation model to generate content. Upload file to chat: Users can upload documents into a chat session and interact with its contents. Amazon Q Apps (Preview)*: Users can build and share their own purpose-built applications to automate tasks and improve productivity. Custom plugins: Enable users to execute actions in third-party applications. Amazon Q Business in Quicksight (Reader Pro): Users can ask questions to explore data in natural language, view and interact with dashboards, and create compelling stories from insights.

*Amazon Q Apps (Preview) will be available to Amazon Q Business Lite users until June 30, 2024.

For detailed pricing information, including examples of charges for index capacity, subscribing and unsubscribing users to Amazon Q Business tiers, upgrading and downgrading Amazon Q Business tiers, and more, see Amazon Q Business Pricing.

Managing user subscriptions

You use the Amazon Q Business console to manage user access to and subscriptions for your Amazon Q Business application. You can add and subscribe users, or groups of users, when you create and configure your application.

The following are some important things to note about managing user subscriptions:

• You must use an IAM Identity Center instance that contains all the user and groups you want to add tor your Amazon Q Business application. We recommend configuring users and groups in IAM Identity Center before you create your Amazon Q Business application. However, the Amazon Q Business console also provides you with limited IAM Identity Center user and group creation capabilities.

• Once created, users and groups can be subscribed to Amazon Q Business plans using the Amazon Q Business console. You can add a user to a group already subscribed to an Amazon Q Business application from IAM Identity Center.

• User subscriptions are created per Amazon Q Business application or Amazon QuickSight account. You can independently create, update, or delete subscriptions for users for their specific Amazon Q Business application or Amazon QuickSight account.

• AWS will deduplicate subscriptions across all Amazon Q Business applications and Amazon QuickSight accounts and charge each user only once for their highest subscription level. Note that deduplication will apply only if the Amazon Q Business applications and Amazon QuickSight accounts share the same IAM Identity Center instance.

• Created or updated user subscriptions are prorated based on the number of days left in the calendar month. Any cancellations or downgrades are not prorated and apply starting in the next calendar month. The charges for user subscription starts only after first use by the user. Charges are applied in accordance with your highest level tier.

• Subscriptions that are created in one application are independent of subscriptions in other applications. For example, if you update or unsubscribe a user's subscription to application "A", it will not affect the user's subscription in application "B".

For a consolidated view of all your user subscriptions across Amazon Q Business, Amazon Q Developer, and more, see the Amazon Q Business subscriptions page. Subscriptions can only be viewed centrally and not be created or updated from the Amazon Q Business subscription management console.

Pricing

You are charged for user subscriptions to applications and for index capacity. You can choose any combination of the following subscription tiers and indices for your application.

For detailed pricing information, including examples of charges for index capacity, subscribing and unsubscribing users to Amazon Q Business tiers, upgrading and downgrading Amazon Q Business tiers, and more, see Amazon Q Business Pricing.