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 environment.
Index types
Amazon Q Business offers two types of indexes: starter index and enterprise index. The following table outlines the features of both.
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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
Only an admin can create and upgrade user subscriptions.
As of July 1, 2024, Amazon Q Apps only available to Amazon Q Business Pro users. Users with Lite subscriptions should upgrade to Amazon Q Business Pro, see Managing user subscriptions.
Amazon Q Business Lite Plan | Amazon Q Business Pro Plan |
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Ideal use case
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Ideal use case
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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
Amazon Q Business Lite users must upgrade to Amazon Q Business Pro to continue using Q Apps
Starting July 1, 2024, Amazon Q Apps are available only to Amazon Q Business Pro users. Amazon Q Business Lite users will no longer be able to create, run, or view Q Apps. To ensure uninterrupted access, to Q Apps, Lite users must upgrade to Amazon Q Business Pro. Additionally, unpublished Q Apps created by Lite users who do not upgrade will be deleted after August 30, 2024. To upgrade to Amazon Q Business Pro, see Managing user subscriptions.
Managing user subscriptions
As an admin, you can use the Amazon Q Business console to manage user access to and subscriptions for your Amazon Q Business application environment. You can add and subscribe users, or groups of users, when you create and configure your application environment.
The following are some important things to note about managing user subscriptions:
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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 environment. We recommend configuring users and groups in IAM Identity Center before you create your Amazon Q Business application environment. However, the Amazon Q Business console also provides you with limited IAM Identity Center user and group creation capabilities.
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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 environment from IAM Identity Center.
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User subscriptions are created per Amazon Q Business application environment or Amazon QuickSight account. You can independently create, update, or delete subscriptions for users for their specific Amazon Q Business application environment or Amazon QuickSight account.
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AWS will deduplicate subscriptions across all Amazon Q Business application environments 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 application environments and Amazon QuickSight accounts share the same IAM Identity Center instance.
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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.
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Subscriptions that are created in one application environment are independent of subscriptions in other application environments. For example, if you update or unsubscribe a user's subscription to application environment "A", it will not affect the user's subscription in application environment "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
Pricing
You are charged for user subscriptions to application environments and for index capacity. You can choose any combination of the following subscription tiers and indices for your application environment.
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