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:

• Empowering Enterprise Efficiency with Amazon Q Business
• Introduction to Amazon S3
• Centralizing Access to Multiple Accounts and Applications Using AWS IAM Identity Center