Author: Abhinav Jawadekar

In this post, we explore how Amazon Quick Suite’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) client enables secure, standardized connections to enterprise applications and AI agents, eliminating the need for complex custom integrations. You’ll discover how to set up MCP Actions integrations with popular enterprise tools like Atlassian Jira and Confluence, AWS Knowledge MCP Server, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway to create a collaborative environment where people and AI agents can seamlessly work together across your organization’s data and applications.

In this post, we demonstrate how to build an AI assistant using Amazon Q Business that responds to user requests based on your enterprise documents stored in an S3 bucket, and how the users can use the reference URLs in the AI assistant responses to view or download the referred documents, and verify the AI responses to practice responsible AI.

Amazon Q Business provides a rich set of APIs to perform administrative tasks and to build an AI assistant with customized user experience for your enterprise. In this post, we show how to use Amazon Q Business APIs when using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) federation for user access management.

Amazon Q Business is a conversational assistant powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) that enhances workforce productivity by answering questions and completing tasks based on information in your enterprise systems, which each user is authorized to access. In an earlier post, we discussed how you can build private and secure enterprise generative AI applications with Amazon Q Business and AWS IAM Identity Center. If you want to use Amazon Q Business to build enterprise generative AI applications, and have yet to adopt organization-wide use of AWS IAM Identity Center, you can use Amazon Q Business IAM Federation to directly manage user access to Amazon Q Business applications from your enterprise identity provider (IdP), such as Okta or Ping Identity. Amazon Q Business IAM Federation uses Federation with IAM and doesn’t require the use of IAM Identity Center. This post shows how you can use Amazon Q Business IAM Federation for user access management of your Amazon Q Business applications.

As of April 30, 2024 Amazon Q Business is generally available. Amazon Q Business is a conversational assistant powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) that enhances workforce productivity by answering questions and completing tasks based on information in your enterprise systems. Your employees can access enterprise content securely and privately using web applications built with […]

June 2023: This post was updated to cover the Amazon Kendra Retrieve API optimized for RAG use cases, and Amazon Kendra retriever now being part of the LangChain GitHub repo. This revision also updates the instructions to use new version samples from the AWS Samples GitHub repo. Generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs), […]

If you’ve had the opportunity to build a search application for unstructured data (i.e., wiki, informational web sites, self-service help pages, internal documentation, etc.) using open source or commercial-off-the-shelf search engines, then you’re probably familiar with the inherent accuracy challenges involved in getting relevant search results. The intended meaning of both query and document can […]

Unstructured data continues to grow in many organizations, making it a challenge for users to get the information they need. Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate, intelligent search service powered by machine learning (ML). Amazon Kendra uses deep learning and reading comprehension to deliver precise answers, and returns a list of ranked documents that match […]

Organizations use messaging platforms like Slack to bring the right people together to securely communicate with each other and collaborate to get work done. A Slack workspace captures invaluable organizational knowledge in the form of the information that flows through it as the users collaborate. However, making this knowledge easily and securely available to users […]

Critical information can be scattered across multiple data sources in your organization, including sources such as Windows file systems stored on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. You can now use the Amazon Kendra connector for FSx for Windows File Server to index documents (HTML, PDF, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and plain text) stored in […]