Document history for Amazon Kendra
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Latest documentation update: December 4, 2024
The following table describes important changes in each release of Amazon Kendra. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to the RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
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Amazon Kendra now supports a new index type: the Amazon Kendra GenAI Enterprise Edition index. For more information, see Amazon Kendra GenAI Enterprise Edition index. | December 4, 2024 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an updated version of the GitHub data source connector. For more information, see GitHub. | February 27, 2024 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an updated versions of the Amazon FSx data source connector. For more information, see Amazon FSx (Windows) and Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP). | February 8, 2024 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an updated version of the Slack data source connector. For more information, see Slack. | January 11, 2024 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports collapsing and expanding your search results. For more information, see Collapsing/expanding search results. | October 19, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an Aurora (MySQL) data source connector. For more information, see Aurora (MySQL). | September 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an Aurora (PostgreSQL) data source connector. For more information, see Aurora (PostgreSQL). | September 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an Amazon RDS (MySQL) data source connector. For more information, see Amazon RDS (MySQL). | September 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an Amazon RDS (Microsoft SQL Server) data source connector. For more information, see Amazon RDS (Microsoft SQL Server). | September 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an Amazon RDS (Oracle) data source connector. For more information, see Amazon RDS (Oracle). | September 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) data source connector. For more information, see Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL). | September 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports a IBM DB2 data source connector. For more information, see IBM DB2. | September 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports a Microsoft SQL Server data source connector. For more information, see Microsoft SQL Server. | September 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports a MySQL data source connector. For more information, see MySQL. | September 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an Oracle Database data source connector. For more information, see Oracle Database. | September 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports a PostgreSQL data source connector. For more information, see PostgreSQL. | September 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Drupal. For more information, see Drupal. | September 6, 2023 | |
Retrieve semantically relevant passages using the Amazon Kendra Retrieve API for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. | June 22, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an updated version of the Amazon Kendra Web Crawler data source connector. For more information, see Amazon Kendra Web Crawler v2.0. | June 21, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra is now available in Europe (London) (eu-west-2). | June 5, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an updated version of the Alfresco data source connector. For more information, see Alfresco. | May 16, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Adobe Experience Manager. For more information, see Adobe Experience Manager. | May 11, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports configuring document fields/attributes when you call GetQuerySuggestions. You can now base query suggestions on the contents of document fields. For more information, see Query suggestions. | May 2, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Gmail. For more information, see Gmail. | April 13, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an updated version of the Microsoft OneDrive data source connector. For more information, see Microsoft OneDrive v2.0. | April 3, 2023 | |
Improve the visibility of new documents or promote certain documents when your users type certain queries using Featured results. | March 30, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an updated data source connector for Microsoft SharePoint. For more information, see Microsoft SharePoint. | March 2, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an updated version of the Confluence data source connector. For more information, see Confluence. | March 1, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra is now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1). | February 7, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, see Microsoft Exchange. | January 12, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Microsoft Yammer. For more information, see Microsoft Yammer. | January 12, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports indexing RTF, XML, XSLT, MS_EXCEL, CSV, JSON, and MD document types. For more information, see Types of documents. | January 11, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports an updated version of the Amazon S3 data source connector. For more information, see Amazon S3. | January 10, 2023 | |
OpenSearch | January 9, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Microsoft Teams. For more information, see Microsoft Teams. | January 5, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra has an updated data source connector for Google Drive. For more information, see Google Drive . | January 5, 2023 | |
Amazon Kendra has an updated data source connector for ServiceNow. For more information, see ServiceNow. | December 21, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra has an updated data source connector for Salesforce. For more information, see Salesforce. | December 21, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1). | December 14, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra's tabular search feature can search and extract answers from tables embedded in HTML documents. | November 27, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra supports semantic search for a select set of languages. | November 27, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Dropbox. For more information, see Dropbox. | September 27, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Zendesk. For more information, see Zendesk. | August 17, 2022 | |
Document level access control can now be re-configured after you index your documents. For more information, see Access control configuration. | July 14, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Alfresco. For more information, see Alfresco. | June 30, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for GitHub. For more information, see GitHub. | June 2, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Jira. For more information, see Jira. | May 12, 2022 | |
Nested facets within a facet can be displayed in the search results. For more information, see Facets. | May 5, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Quip. For more information, see Quip. | April 19, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Box. For more information, see Box. | April 6, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Slack. For more information, see Slack. | March 14, 2022 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Amazon FSx. For more information, see Amazon FSx. | February 8, 2022 | |
AWS managed policy updates - New policies | Amazon Kendra added new AWS managed policies. For more information, see AWS Managed policies for Amazon Kendra. | January 3, 2022 |
Amazon Kendra search application can be deployed in a few clicks without the need for any front-end code. For more information, see Deploying a search application with no code. | December 1, 2021 | |
Document metadata and content can be enriched during the document ingestion process. For more information, see Customizing document metadata during the ingestion process. | December 1, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra offers search analytics to gain useful insights into your search application. For more information, see Gaining insights with search analytics. | December 1, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1). | October 13, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra can now index documents in multiple languages and filter search results by language. See Adding documents in languages other than English and Searching in languages. | October 7, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra now integrates with Identity Center directory to fetch access levels of groups and users for user context filtering. See User-group configuration for IAM Identity Center. | October 6, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a tutorial that walks you through how to build a metadata-enriched search solution. See Building an intelligent search solution. | August 13, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Amazon WorkDocs. For more information, see Amazon WorkDocs. | July 20, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a web crawler to crawl and index webpages. For more information, see Web crawler. | June 17, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra is now available in Canada (Central) (ca-central-1). | June 16, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra is now available in US East (Ohio) (us-east-2). | June 7, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports query suggestions, where users are suggested popular queries relevant to their search. For more information, see Suggesting popular search queries. | May 27, 2021 | |
AWS managed policy updates - New policies | Amazon Kendra added new AWS managed policies. For more information, see AWS Managed policies for Amazon Kendra. | May 27, 2021 |
Amazon Kendra is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) (ap-southeast-1). | May 5, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports tuning search relevance in the query by overriding tuning configurations set at the index level. For more information, see Tuning search relevance and Tuning responses. | April 20, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports OAuth 2.0 authentication and using ServiceNow queries to select documents for indexing. For more information, see ServiceNow. | April 1, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports incremental learning for FAQ documents. For more information, see Submitting feedback for incremental learning. | February 17, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports index synonyms. For more information, see Adding synonyms to an index. | December 10, 2020 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data base connector for Google Workspace Drive. For more information, see Using a Google Workspace Drive data source. | December 8, 2020 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a JavaScript library that makes it easier for you to provide query feedback to Amazon Kendra. For more information, see Submitting feedback. | December 8, 2020 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports token-based user access control. For more information, see Controlling access to documents in an index. | November 5, 2020 | |
The Amazon Kendra Confluence data source connector now works with Confluence cloud. For more information, see Using a Confluence data source. | November 5, 2020 | |
Amazon Kendra is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) (ap-southeast-2). | November 2, 2020 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source connector for Confluence server. For more information, see Using a Confluence data source. | October 26, 2020 | |
Amazon Kendra now provides a data source that you can use to generate statistics for your custom connectors. For more information, see Using a custom data source. | October 21, 2020 | |
Amazon Kendra now supports custom attributes for frequently asked questions. For more information, see Adding questions and answers. | September 17, 2020 | |
Amazon Kendra now returns confidence scores for query results. For more information, see QueryResultItem. | September 15, 2020 | |
AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon Kendra. For more information, see Amazon Kendra resource type reference - AWS CloudFormation. | September 10, 2020 | |
Amazon Kendra adds support for AWS PrivateLink. For more information, see Amazon Kendra and interface VPC endpoints (AWS PrivateLink). | July 7, 2020 | |
This is the first release of the Amazon Kendra Developer Guide. | May 11, 2020 |
