Amazon Q Business Getting Started
AWS Skill Builder
Last updated March 7, 2025
Amazon Q Business Getting Started is a free, 45-minute introduction to Amazon Q Business, AWS's generative-AI assistant that answers questions, generates content, writes summaries, and completes tasks using an organization's own information. It opens with the service essentials — features and capabilities, typical use cases, benefits, technical concepts, and cost — and a look at the architecture behind how it works. A guided tutorial then walks you through building a working Amazon Q web experience over a sample document set: creating a data source, setting up AWS IAM Identity Center and users, creating the application, chatting with it, and cleaning up the resources afterward.
What you'll learn
- What Q Business is and how it works
- Features, capabilities, use cases
- Benefits and cost
- Creating a data source + IAM Identity Center and users
- Building a Q web experience over sample documents
- Chatting with it, then cleaning up resources
Frequently asked questions about Amazon Q Business Getting Started
Who is Amazon Q Business Getting Started for?
Beginners who want a hands-on introduction to deploying an enterprise generative-AI assistant grounded in an organization's own documents, using Amazon Q Business.
Is Amazon Q Business Getting Started free?
Yes — Amazon Q Business Getting Started is completely free to take.
What are the prerequisites for Amazon Q Business Getting Started?
AWS Technical Essentials recommended; an AWS account is needed to follow the guided build.
Why we suggest this course
A compact, end-to-end first look at an enterprise generative-AI assistant: not just what Amazon Q Business does, but a guided build of a working web experience over your own documents, including the identity and data-source setup that real deployments depend on. One thing to know: this is an introduction to a single AWS service, so it is vendor-specific by design rather than a general tour of enterprise AI assistants — what you build is specific to Amazon Q Business.