Amazon Q Business - Subscription Tiers & Index Types

Quiz

Amazon Q Business has different kinds of indexes and user subscription plans for users. You can pick the indexes and user subscription plans that work best for your Amazon Q Business application environment.

Index Types

Amazon Q Business offers two types of indexes: starter index and enterprise index. The following table outlines the features of both.

	Starter index	Enterprise index
Ideal use case	Proof-of-concept or developer workloads	Production workloads
Features	Runs in 1 Availability Zone (AZ) This feature allows you to store up to 20,000 documents or a total of 200 MB of extracted text Includes up to 100 hours of data source connector usage	Runs in 3 Availability Zone (AZ) This feature allows you to store up to 20,000 documents or a total of 200 MB of extracted text Includes up to 100 hours of data source connector usage Includes customer managed key encryption support

User Subscription Tiers

Amazon Q Business offers two subscription tiers: the Amazon Q Business Lite Plan and the Amazon Q Business Pro Plan. The following table outlines the features of Amazon Q Business Pro and Amazon Q Business Lite.

As of July 1, 2024, Amazon Q Apps only available to Amazon Q Business Pro users. Users with Lite subscriptions should upgrade to Amazon Q Business Pro.

	Amazon Q Business Lite Plan	Amazon Q Business Pro Plan
Ideal use case	Perfect for all employees to use across the whole company. Allows end users to ask questions and receive permissions-aware responses from enterprise data sources with citations Provide response over every questions for use cases such as IT, HR, benefits help desks, and other Q&A chatbot use cases at a low cost	The starter index is best suited for knowledge workers who need to improve productivity across a wide range of tasks. Provides the full suite of Amazon Q Business capabilities Includes access to Amazon Q Apps * for creating and sharing task automation applications Provides access to custom plugins for actions like submitting time off requests and sending meeting invites through Amazon Q Business Includes Amazon Q integration in Amazon QuickSight Pro for understanding data through executive summaries, context-aware Q&A, and interactive data stories
Features	Knowledge bases allow users to ask questions and get answers with citations from a collection of information. Users can only see information that they are allowed to see. Users can access a web interface and only need to log in once to use all the features.	Knowledge bases allow users to ask questions and get answers with citations from a collection of information. Users can only see information that they are allowed to see. Users can access a web interface and only need to log in once to use all the features. Includes customer managed key encryption support Users can send queries directly to the foundation model to generate content. Users can upload documents into a chat session and interact with its contents. Users can build and share their own purpose-built applications to automate tasks and improve productivity. Enable users to execute actions in third-party applications. Users can ask questions to explore data in natural language, view and interact with dashboards, and create compelling stories from insights.

As of July 1, 2024, Amazon Q Apps are available only to Amazon Q Business Pro users. Amazon Q Business Lite users must upgrade to Amazon Q Business Pro to continue using Q Apps.

Understanding User Subscriptions

Subscriptions for Amazon Q Business applications and Amazon QuickSight accounts are managed individually for each application or account. If you use IAM Identity Center for user management, AWS will ensure a user is only charged once for their highest subscription level across all applications and accounts sharing the same IAM Identity Center instance.

Amazon Q Business application users who subscribe using IAM Federation through an Identity Provider (OIDC or SAML) will be charged only once per Identity Provider, regardless of how many applications they use with that Identity Provider. However, if they use applications connected to multiple Identity Providers, they'll be charged separately for each provider.

In scenarios where a user is subscribed to a mix of applications, the charging structure is as follows:

For applications using IAM Identity Center, users will be charged once across all these applications that share the same IAM Identity Center instance.
For applications using IAM Federation, users will be charged once per IAM Identity Provider.

User subscriptions are calculated based on the days left in the month when you sign up or upgrade. If you cancel or downgrade, changes take effect the following month and you won't get a refund for the current month. You only start paying for a user subscription after they first use it. Once they use it, you'll be charged every month until you remove their subscription.

Pricing

You are charged for user subscriptions to application environments and for index capacity. You can choose any combination of the following subscription tiers and indices for your application environment.

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