Amazon Q Apps: build your own AI-powered apps

Amazon this week announced the general availability of Amazon Q Apps, a new feature within its enterprise assistant tool, Amazon Q Business. This no-code solution allows users to create generative AI-powered applications to streamline workflows and boost productivity.

Key Takeaways

• Build custom AI apps using natural language.
• Leverage existing data sources or large language model (LLM) knowledge.
• Share and collaborate on apps within your organization.
• New features include API access and card-level data source control.

Amazon Q Apps empowers users to create custom generative AI applications directly within Amazon Q Business. These applications leverage natural language processing (NLP) to understand user intent and generate responses based on a variety of data sources.

There are two primary methods for building Q Apps:

1. Conversation-based creation: Engage in a conversation with Amazon Q Business to define your app's functionality. Q Business will then translate the conversation into a functional app complete with prompts and outputs.
2. Manual creation: Utilize the Apps section within Q Business to directly describe the app you wish to create. You can choose from pre-configured prompts or draft your own.

Once you've built your Q App, you can customize its layout, edit individual prompts, and specify data sources for each output card. This granular control ensures responses are tailored to your specific needs.

Sharing apps within your organization is seamless. Publish your app to the centralized app library, granting access to all authorized users within your Amazon Q Business environment.

Benefits of Amazon Q Apps

• Increased productivity through automation of repetitive tasks.
• Improved decision-making with data-driven insights.
• Enhanced collaboration through shared, reusable applications.
• Reduced development time with no-code app creation.

New Features in General Availability

• Specify data sources at card level: Control the data used to generate outputs for each card within your app. This refines response accuracy by ensuring outputs are based on the most relevant data.
• Amazon Q Apps API: Programmatically manage and integrate Q Apps functionalities into existing tools and applications using the newly available APIs.

Amazon Q Apps is currently available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions, aligning with Amazon Q Business availability. The feature is included within the Amazon Q Business Pro subscription, priced at $20 per user per month.