Amazon Q Business

AWS

Vendor

Enterprise business assistant for existing customers, with permissions-aware responses and broad data-source connectivity.

Curated by Tiberiu ArvaStale 2026-05-26

Proprietary

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Strengths

40+ data connectors
Permissions-aware responses
Existing-customer business assistant

Practitioner note

Relevant only to existing Amazon Q Business deployments; AWS directs new customers to Amazon Quick for similar capabilities.

Warning

Amazon Q Business: No longer open to new customers; AWS directs new customers to Amazon Quick for similar capabilities.

Where it sits in the stack

Listed under Assistants & copilots in the Use layer.

Build & orchestrate
- Agent frameworks
- Workflows & orchestration
Control plane
Use
- Covers: Assistants & copilots
- Always-on agents

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Governance posture

Reviewed 2026-05-26

PartialData residency

Primary-region storage; cross-region inference stays within geography; in-country needs AWS Support.

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YesDeployment model

SaaS on AWS with 40+ connectors; no self-hosted option. (saas)

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YesAudit logging

CloudTrail integration for all Q Business (and Q Apps) API calls.

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YesSOC 2

Amazon Q Business in scope for AWS SOC 1/2/3.

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YesISO 27001

Amazon Q Business ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified.

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YesISO 42001

Amazon Q Business listed in AWS ISO 42001 scope.

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UnknownEU AI Act

Assessed limited-risk by product category; no published vendor EU AI Act conformity assessment. (role: limited-risk)

YesLicense risk

Proprietary SaaS; AWS ecosystem lock-in. (medium)

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EU AI Act obligations

Risk tier: Limited risk · as of 2026-10-10

Source-backed information mapped from Amazon Q Business's tracked risk tier — not legal advice. Obligations depend on how your organisation deploys the system; see the full obligation reference and timeline.

Article 4AI literacy

Providers and deployers must take measures to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy in staff and other persons operating AI systems on their behalf.

Applies from 2025-02-02

Official text

Article 50Transparency for certain AI systems

People must be informed when they interact with an AI system; synthetic audio, image, video, and text content must be marked as artificially generated, and deepfakes disclosed.

Applies from 2026-08-02

Official text

Change history

Source-backed and auto-detected events for this tool, newest first.

2026-07-31DeprecationHigh impact
Amazon Q Business closed to new customers; AWS will continue bug fixes and security updates for existing customers but will not consider new feature requests, and recommends migration to Amazon Quick.
Amazon Q Business availability change
2026-09-13Auto-detectedHigh impact
status: active → deprecated
From snapshot diff 2026-08-22 → 2026-09-13.

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