hands-on lab

Enhancing Productivity With Amazon Q Business

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Students: 26
Get guided in a real environmentPractice with a step-by-step scenario in a real, provisioned environment.
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Description

Amazon Q Business is a service from AWS that enables you to make use of generative AI to empower your business. By using Amazon Q Business, you can access all the analytic and automation benefits of a generative AI assistant without having to deal with the technical complexity of training, hosting, and serving your own model.

Learning how to use Amazon Q Business will benefit anyone looking to quickly make use of generative AI technology.

In this hands-on lab, you will create and configure a new Amazon Q Business application for use with a sales report dataset.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

  • Create a new Amazon Q Business application
  • Create and synchronize a data source
  • Assign a user to an Amazon Q Business application
  • Use a chat style interface to interrogate data

Intended audience

  • Anyone looking to use generative AI technology in their business today
  • Cloud Architects
  • Data Engineers
  • Machine Learning Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • Amazon Q and Amazon Q Business
  • Amazon S3
  • IAM Identity Center

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

 

Updates

October 15th, 2024 - Updated instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

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Covered topics

Lab steps

Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
Creating an Amazon Q Business Application
Assigning a User and Syncing a Data Source
Analyzing Data Using Amazon Q Business