Amazon Q is an AWS assistant family. Q Business focuses on organizational knowledge and supported work tasks, while Q Developer focuses on software development and AWS workflows.

Can new customers sign up for Amazon Q Business?

AWS says Q Business closed to new customers on July 31, 2026. Existing customers can continue using it; AWS directs new users seeking similar capabilities to Amazon Quick.

Has Amazon Q Developer shut down?

The published notice concerns IDE-plugin support ending April 30, 2027. It does not state that every Amazon Q product has already shut down.

How much does Q Developer cost?

AWS lists a Free tier with 50 agentic requests monthly and a Pro tier at $19 per user monthly with expanded limits.

How much does Q Business cost for existing customers?

Published seats are $3 per user monthly for Lite and $20 for Pro. Index capacity and other applicable charges are separate.

Does Q Business use customer data to train models?

AWS says Q Business customer data is not used for service improvement or improving underlying language models. Retention and operational controls are separate questions.

Can Q Developer Free content be used for service improvement?

AWS documents possible Free-tier content use and opt-out controls. The applicable setting depends on the environment where the service is used.

Why are permissions important in Q Business?

Permission-aware retrieval must match the user's authorized sources. Test both access to allowed information and exclusion of restricted information with representative accounts.

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Amazon Q

Enterprise AI assistant for secure company knowledge search, cited answers and task automation.

Enterprise AI AssistantKnowledge SearchBusiness ProductivityAWS Development

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Starting Price

Business Lite from $3/user/month · Business Pro from $20/user/month; index capacity billed separately. Developer has a separate Free tier.

Context Window

Not published as one user-visible token limit; retrieval/indexing and response length depend on service configuration and subscription.

Web Access

Enterprise data retrieval from synchronized connectors; optional web crawler indexes configured sites. Not a general-purpose live public web search assistant.

Best For

Enterprise employees / Internal knowledge bases / IT and HR help desks / Secure document research / AWS teams.

About Amazon Q

Amazon Q Business is a permission-aware enterprise assistant for search, document analysis and business actions. Amazon Q Developer is a separate AWS coding assistant with its own Free/Pro tiers.

Specifications

Pricing

3 specifications

Starting Price	Business Lite from $3/user/month · Business Pro from $20/user/month; index capacity billed separately. Developer has a separate Free tier.
Free Plan	No permanent free Amazon Q Business seat plan documented. Amazon Q Developer offers a separate Free tier for IDE/CLI assistance and limited advanced requests.
Usage Limits	Business Lite: permission-aware answers of about one page; Pro: answers up to about seven pages plus Q Apps, plugins and advanced integrations. Index capacity billed separately.

Overview

3 specifications

Primary Use Case	Enterprise knowledge assistant for permission-aware search, cited Q&A, document summaries and business actions.
Best For	Enterprise employees / Internal knowledge bases / IT and HR help desks / Secure document research / AWS teams.
Platforms	Amazon Q Business web app, embedded web experiences, Chrome/Firefox/Edge extensions, Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations; Developer separately supports IDE/CLI.

AI & Models

5 specifications

AI Models	AWS-managed foundation models via Amazon Bedrock; Amazon Q Business does not expose a universal user-facing model selector.
Model Selection	Managed by AWS for Business chat; model selection not offered as a standard consumer-style dropdown.
Context Window

General Chat	Conversational question answering, summaries, brainstorming and follow-up questions grounded in enterprise content.
Advanced Reasoning	Analysis and reasoning over enterprise sources; agentic retrieval-augmented generation supported in Q Business.
Web Search	Amazon Q Web Crawler can index configured websites; no universal live public-web search feature comparable to consumer search assistants.
Deep Research	Multi-source enterprise synthesis with cited responses; a separately branded Deep Research mode with published report quotas is not documented.
Citations / Sources	In-text citations, source titles, clickable links and contextual snippets from indexed company documents.
Conversation Memory	Maintains context within an existing chat and allows users to continue previous conversations; long-term cross-chat personal memory not generally documented.
Custom Instructions	Admins configure answer restrictions, blocked topics, relevance and app settings; Pro supports custom action plugins.

Image Understanding	Extracts insights from visual elements in PDFs, Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs and Slides; image understanding depends on source and ingestion.
Image Generation	Native text-to-image generation is not a standard Amazon Q Business chat capability; AWS offers separate image-generation services.
File Analysis	Upload files into chat for summaries, questions and data analysis; supported types and size caps depend on the web experience configuration.
Voice Input	Native consumer-style voice input is not listed as a standard Amazon Q Business web chat feature.
Voice Conversations	Continuous real-time spoken conversations are not documented as a standard Amazon Q Business feature.
Video Understanding	Can answer questions from indexed multimedia content including video through supported data sources; direct video upload support is not universally documented.

Coding Assistance	Amazon Q Developer (separate product) provides IDE/CLI code suggestions, debugging, code transformation and AWS development assistance.
Data Analysis	Amazon Q Business can analyze uploaded files and connected business data; Pro includes Amazon Q in QuickSight Reader Pro for natural-language analytics.
Document Creation	Generate text summaries, reports and emails; Q Apps Pro can produce reusable structured business workflows, not a universal DOCX/PPTX export suite.
Canvas / Workspace	Amazon Q Apps (Business Pro) offers a visual no-code builder with form, input, output and plugin cards for reusable AI-powered apps.
Projects / Workspaces	Admin-managed enterprise Q Business applications, indexed knowledge repositories and organization-wide Q Apps sharing.

Custom Assistants	Q Apps (Pro) enables reusable tailored AI applications from natural-language descriptions; custom plugin-based workflows require Pro.
Extensions / Apps	Amazon Q Apps, built-in/custom action plugins, browser extensions and embedded chat experiences; Pro required for plugins.
Integrations	40+ managed enterprise data connectors, including S3, SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Slack, Jira, Salesforce and ServiceNow.

API Access	Amazon Q Business service APIs support enterprise app/index and chat integrations; billed via user subscriptions and index capacity, not bundled general LLM token credits.
Team Plan	Amazon Q Business Lite $3/user/month and Pro $20/user/month; per-user subscriptions plus index capacity.
Enterprise Plan	Managed AWS enterprise deployments with permission-aware retrieval, SSO, connectors, custom plugins and Amazon Q Apps on Pro.
Enterprise Security	IAM Identity Center SSO, SAML federation, document-level permissions, AWS CloudTrail audit logs, PrivateLink VPC endpoints and FIPS endpoints.

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Multilingual Support	Language support depends on Amazon Q Business regional features, source languages and model; not all workflows have equal coverage.
Supported Languages	Multiple languages supported for enterprise search and chat; a single guaranteed all-feature language count is not published.