Amazon Q Business

Generative-AI assistant answering questions over enterprise data with permission-aware citations.

Provider: aws
Kind: AI service
Category: Compute
Official docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/what-is.html

Properties · 5 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
auth	enum	api-key \| oauth \| iam \| none	no	—	▸ iam
contentFiltering	boolean	—	no	—	▸ true
customerManagedKeys	boolean	—	no	—	inherited
dataResidency · advanced	enum	us \| eu \| asia \| global	no	—	inherited
dataRetentionDays	integer	—	no	—	inherited
keyStore	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
modality	enum	text \| vision \| speech \| multimodal \| structured \| image \| video \| audio \| embedding \| rerank	no	—	▸ text
publicEndpoint	boolean	—	no	—	▸ false
quotaUnitsPerMinute	integer	—	no	—	inherited
rateLimitRpm · advanced	integer	—	no	—	inherited
rateLimitTpm · advanced	integer	—	no	—	inherited
responseScope · component property	enum	enterprise-data-only \| enterprise-data-and-model-knowledge	no	—	inherited
retriever · component property	enum	native-index \| kendra-index	no	—	inherited
userAuthentication · component property	enum	iam-identity-center \| iam-federation \| anonymous	no	—	inherited
viaGateway	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
webExperience · component property	boolean	—	no	true	inherited

Rules that apply · 2

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

AI API key not managedwarning

ai-api-key-unmanaged

This AI vendor is reached with an API key, and nothing in the design holds or rotates that key. It ends up in environment files or code, every caller shares it, and a single leak runs up the vendor bill until someone notices. Put the key in a key-management component, or say it is held there with keyStore.

— all of these hold:
— the node's `auth` is "api-key"
— the node's `keyStore` is false
— the node has at least one incoming edge from an app-server, worker or client
— this does not hold:
— the design contains a node of kind key-management

Stateful node without zone redundancyerror

stateful-node-without-zone-redundancy

A stateful compute node pinned to exactly one availability zone disappears with that zone, and its state goes with it. Nodes inside a cell are exempt, because there the cell is deliberately single-zone and redundancy comes from the other cells.

— all of these hold:
— the node's `stateless` is false
— the node sits inside exactly 1 availability-zone group
— this does not hold:
— the node sits inside at least one cell group

Use it in a design

nodes:
  - { id: "q-business", component: "aws-q-business" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Amazon Q Business: managed generative-AI assistant over enterprise data sources, built on Amazon
3# Bedrock, answering with citations and honouring each user's document permissions. In maintenance
4# since 30 June 2026 (closed to new customers, existing applications keep running). Per "What is
5# Amazon Q Business" end users are authenticated through IAM Identity Center or IAM unless an
6# anonymous application is created, and built-in admin controls and hallucination mitigation apply.
7schemaVersion: "1"
8type: "component"
9id: "aws-q-business"
10kind: "ai-service"
11provider: "aws"
12docs: "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/what-is.html"
13defaults:
14  auth: "iam"
15  managed: true
16  modality: "text"
17  contentFiltering: true
18  publicEndpoint: false
19properties:
20  retriever:
21    type: "enum"
22    values: ["native-index", "kendra-index"]
23  userAuthentication:
24    type: "enum"
25    values: ["iam-identity-center", "iam-federation", "anonymous"]
26  responseScope:
27    type: "enum"
28    values: ["enterprise-data-only", "enterprise-data-and-model-knowledge"]
29  webExperience:
30    type: "boolean"
31    default: true

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/aws-q-business.md