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Google Drive connector overview - Amazon Q Business

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Google Drive connector overview

The following table gives an overview of the Amazon Q Business Google Drive connector and its supported features.

Category Feature Support
Security Authentication type Google Service Account, OAuth 2.0 with Refresh Token Flow
Authentication credentials

Google service account

  • Admin account email

  • Client email

  • Private key

OAuth 2.0 with Refresh Token Flow

  • Client ID

  • Client secret

  • Refresh token

Important

Admin privileges required.
Access Control List (ACL) crawling Yes. For more information, see ACL crawling.
Identity crawling Yes. Supported only with Google service account authentication.
VPC Yes
Crawl features Custom metadata No
Entities Yes. The following entities are supported:

  • Files

  • Comments

See What is a document? for more details on what each connector crawls as a document.
Field mappings Yes. Supports default field mappings. For more information, see Field mappings.
Filters Yes. The following filters are supported:

  • Include files based on file size

  • Include/exclude Shared drives

  • Include/exclude by mime types

  • Include/exclude attachments by file name, file type, and file path
Sync mode Supports full and incremental sync.
File types Supports all files supported by Amazon Q.