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At AWS re:Invent 2023, we previewed Amazon Q Business, a generative synthetic intelligence (generative AI)–powered assistant that may reply questions, present summaries, generate content material, and securely full duties based mostly on knowledge and knowledge in your enterprise methods.
With Amazon Q Enterprise, you’ll be able to deploy a safe, non-public, generative AI assistant that empowers your group’s customers to be extra inventive, data-driven, environment friendly, ready, and productive. In the course of the preview, we heard a number of buyer suggestions and used that suggestions to prioritize our enhancements to the service.
Immediately, we’re asserting the final availability of Amazon Q Business with many new options, together with customized plugins, and a preview of Amazon Q Apps, generative AI–powered personalized and sharable functions utilizing pure language in a single step on your group.
On this weblog publish, I’ll briefly introduce the important thing options of Amazon Q Enterprise with the brand new options now obtainable and check out the options of Amazon Q Apps. Let’s get began!
Introducing Amazon Q Enterprise
Amazon Q Enterprise connects seamlessly to over 40 widespread enterprise knowledge sources and shops doc and permission data, together with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Microsoft 365, and Salesforce. It ensures that you just entry content material securely with present credentials utilizing single sign-on, in accordance with your permissions, and in addition contains enterprise-level entry controls.
Amazon Q Enterprise makes it simple for customers to get solutions to questions like firm insurance policies, merchandise, enterprise outcomes, or code, utilizing its web-based chat assistant. You possibly can level Amazon Q Enterprise at your enterprise knowledge repositories, and it’ll search throughout all knowledge, summarize logically, analyze traits, and interact in dialog with customers.
With Amazon Q Enterprise, you’ll be able to construct safe and personal generative AI assistants with enterprise-grade entry controls at scale. You can even use administrative guardrails, doc enrichment, and relevance tuning to customise and management responses which might be constant together with your firm’s pointers.
Listed below are the important thing options of Amazon Q Enterprise with new options now obtainable:
Finish-user internet expertise
With the built-in internet expertise, you’ll be able to ask a query, obtain a response, after which ask follow-up questions and add new data with in-text supply citations whereas holding the context from the earlier reply. You possibly can solely get a response from knowledge sources that you’ve entry to.
With normal availability, we’re introducing a brand new content material creation mode within the internet expertise. On this mode, Amazon Q Enterprise doesn’t use or entry the enterprise content material however as an alternative makes use of generative AI fashions constructed into Amazon Q Enterprise for inventive use circumstances corresponding to summarization of responses and crafting customized emails. To make use of the content material creation mode, you’ll be able to flip off Reply from authorised sources within the dialog settings.
To be taught extra, go to Using an Amazon Q Business web experience and Customizing an Amazon Q Business web experience within the AWS documentation.
Pre-built knowledge connectors and plugins
You possibly can join, index, and sync your enterprise knowledge utilizing over 40 pre-built data connectors or an Amazon Kendra retriever, in addition to internet crawling or importing your paperwork instantly.
Amazon Q Enterprise ingests content material utilizing a built-in semantic doc retriever. It additionally retrieves and respects permission data corresponding to entry management lists (ACLs) to permit it to handle entry to the info after retrieval. When the info is ingested, your knowledge is secured with the Service-managed key of AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).
You possibly can configure plugins to carry out actions in enterprise methods, together with Jira, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Zendesk. Customers can create a Jira difficulty or a Salesforce case whereas chatting within the chat assistant. You can even deploy a Microsoft Teams gateway or a Slack gateway to make use of an Amazon Q Enterprise assistant in your groups or channels.
With normal availability, you’ll be able to construct customized plugins to hook up with any third-party software by means of APIs in order that customers can use pure language prompts to carry out actions corresponding to submitting time-off requests or sending assembly invitations instantly by means of Amazon Q Enterprise assistant. Customers can even search real-time knowledge, corresponding to time-off balances, scheduled conferences, and extra.
While you select Customized plugin, you’ll be able to outline an OpenAPI schema to attach your third-party software. You possibly can add the OpenAPI schema to Amazon S3 or copy it to the Amazon Q Enterprise console in-line schema editor suitable with the Swagger OpenAPI specification.
To be taught extra, go to Data source connectors and Configure plugins within the AWS documentation.
Admin management and guardrails
You possibly can configure world controls to offer customers the choice to both generate giant language mannequin (LLM)-only responses or generate responses from related knowledge sources. You possibly can specify whether or not all chat responses will probably be generated utilizing solely enterprise knowledge or whether or not your software can even use its underlying LLM to generate responses when it will possibly’t discover solutions in your enterprise knowledge. You can even block particular phrases.
With topic-level controls, you’ll be able to specify restricted subjects and configure conduct guidelines in response to the subjects, corresponding to answering utilizing enterprise knowledge or blocking utterly.
To be taught extra, go to Admin control and guardrails within the AWS documentation.
You possibly can alter doc metadata or attributes and content material through the doc ingestion course of by configuring primary logic to specify a metadata area title, choose a situation, and enter or choose a worth and goal actions, corresponding to replace or delete. You can even use AWS Lambda capabilities to control doc fields and content material, corresponding to utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) to extract textual content from photographs.
To be taught extra, go to Document attributes and types in Amazon Q Business and Document enrichment in Amazon Q Business within the AWS documentation.
Enhanced enterprise-grade safety and administration
Beginning April 30, you have to to make use of AWS IAM Identity Center for person identification administration of all new functions quite than utilizing the legacy identity management. You possibly can securely join your workforce to Amazon Q Enterprise functions both within the internet expertise or your personal interface.
You can even centrally handle workforce entry utilizing IAM Identification Middle alongside your present IAM roles and insurance policies. Because the variety of your accounts scales, IAM Identification Middle provides you the choice to make use of it as a single place to handle person entry to all of your functions. To be taught extra, go to Setting up Amazon Q Business with IAM Identity Center within the AWS documentation.
At normal availability, Amazon Q Enterprise is now built-in with varied AWS companies to securely join and retailer the info and simply deploy and monitor entry logs.
You need to use AWS PrivateLink to entry Amazon Q Enterprise securely in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) atmosphere utilizing a VPC endpoint. You need to use the Amazon Q Enterprise template for AWS CloudFormation to simply automate the creation and provisioning of infrastructure sources. You can even use AWS CloudTrail to document actions taken by a person, position, or AWS service in Amazon Q Enterprise.
Additionally, we assist Federal Data Processing Requirements (FIPS) endpoints, based mostly on the US and Canadian authorities requirements and safety necessities for cryptographic modules that defend delicate data.
To be taught extra, go to Security in Amazon Q Business and Monitoring Amazon Q Business within the AWS documentation.
Construct and share apps with new Amazon Q Apps (preview)
Immediately we’re asserting the preview of Amazon Q Apps, a brand new functionality inside Amazon Q Enterprise on your group’s customers to simply and shortly create generative AI-powered apps based mostly on firm knowledge, with out requiring any prior coding expertise.
With Amazon Q Apps, customers merely describe the app they need, in pure language, or they will take an present dialog the place Amazon Q Enterprise helped them remedy an issue. With a number of clicks, Amazon Q Enterprise will immediately generate an app that accomplishes their desired process that may be simply shared throughout their group.
In case you are acquainted with PartyRock, you’ll be able to simply use this code-free builder with the additional advantage of connecting it to your enterprise knowledge already with Amazon Q Enterprise.
To create a brand new Amazon Q App, select Apps in your internet expertise and enter a easy textual content expression for a process within the enter field. You possibly can check out samples, corresponding to a content material creator, interview query generator, assembly word summarizer, and grammar checker.
I’ll make a doc assistant to assessment and proper a doc utilizing the next immediate:
You’re a skilled editor tasked with reviewing and correcting a doc for grammatical errors, spelling errors, and inconsistencies in model and tone. Given a file, your aim is to suggest adjustments to make sure that the doc adheres to the best requirements of writing whereas preserving the creator’s unique intent and which means. You must present a numbered listing for all steered revisions and the supporting purpose.
While you select the Generate button, a doc enhancing assistant app will probably be routinely generated with two playing cards—one to add a doc file as an enter and one other textual content output card that provides edit options.
While you select the Add card button, you’ll be able to add extra playing cards, corresponding to a person enter, textual content output, file add, or pre-configured plugin by your administrator. If you wish to create a Jira ticket to request publishing a publish within the company weblog channel as an creator, you’ll be able to add a Jira Plugin with the results of edited options from the uploaded file.
As soon as you might be able to share the app, select the Publish button. You possibly can securely share this app to your group’s catalog for others to make use of, enhancing productiveness. Your colleagues can select shared apps, modify them, and publish their very own variations to the organizational catalog as an alternative of ranging from scratch.
Select Library to see the entire printed Amazon Q Apps. You possibly can search the catalog by labels and open your favourite apps.
Amazon Q Apps inherit sturdy safety and governance controls from Amazon Q Enterprise, together with person authentication and entry controls, which empower organizations to soundly share apps throughout capabilities that warrant ruled collaboration and innovation.
Within the administrator console, you’ll be able to see your Amazon Q Apps and management or take away them from the library.
To be taught extra, go to Amazon Q Apps within the AWS documentation.
Now obtainable
Amazon Q Enterprise is usually obtainable as we speak within the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Areas. We’re launching two pricing subscription choices.
The Amazon Q Enterprise Lite ($3/person/month) subscription supplies customers entry to the essential performance of Amazon Q Enterprise.
The Amazon Enterprise Professional ($20/person/month) subscription will get customers entry to all options of Amazon Q Enterprise, in addition to Amazon Q Apps (preview) and Amazon Q in QuickSight (Reader Professional), which reinforces enterprise analyst and enterprise person productiveness utilizing generative enterprise intelligence capabilities.
You need to use the free trial (50 customers for 60 days) to experiment with Amazon Q Enterprise. For extra details about pricing choices, go to Amazon Q Business Plan web page.
To be taught extra about Amazon Q Enterprise, you’ll be able to research Amazon Q Business Getting Started, a free, self-paced digital course on AWS Talent Builder and Amazon Q Developer Center to get extra pattern codes.
Give it a attempt within the Amazon Q Business console as we speak! For extra data, go to the Amazon Q Business product page and the User Guide within the AWS documentation. Present suggestions to AWS re:Post for Amazon Q or by means of your standard AWS assist contacts.
— Channy
