"It is the AI assistant your employees need to get work done faster. It can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems."

In this guide, I’ll walk you through creating an application in Amazon Q Business step-by-step.

1. Setting up the application

• Navigate to Amazon Q business console, locate and select the option to create a new application
• Choose a name for your application, Outcome as "web experience"
• For Access management method, select AWS IAM Identity Center

• Note : You can even select Identity provider but Identity Center is recommended as all users can be managed from single point of view

2. Manage users and access

• Now you will have to add users [that will be using this app]
• Browse to the newly created application and Navigate to "Manage access and subscriptions".

• Click on -> Add groups and users -> Add and assign new users

• Enter details for new user, select "next" and add the user

• Once added user will receive a mail invite to join the AWS IAM Identity center, make sure you accept the invite.

3. Setup Retriever

• Browse to the Retriever settings of your application

• Select Native [40+ data sources] or kendra according to your needs and other configurations

• The number of units can range from 1 to 5, where 1 unit = 20,000 documents or 200 mb.

4. Adding data source [knowledge base for chatbot]

• Under you application go to data source -> add data source

• Select "upload files" to directly add files from your local device.
• You can go also with other options like s3, web crawler, RDS etc.

• Click upload and done

5. Test the application

• Go to the deployed URL [you can find this under web experience settings]

• Ask a relevant question to see how this works.

• Try feeding the application with more data sources and feedbacks in web experience to make it's accuracy better.

Conclusion

Creating applications in Amazon Q Business empowers businesses to innovate without the need for extensive coding expertise. By following the above steps, you can quickly design and deploy applications tailored to your organization's needs. Start building today and explore the vast potential of Amazon Q Business!

Do you have experience working with Amazon Q Business, or are you planning to start? Share your thoughts or questions in the comments!

P.S. - Here's a reminder to drink water! Stay hydrated!