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Prerequisites for Amazon Q Business custom plugins - Amazon Q Business

Amazon Q Business will no longer be open to new customers starting on July 31, 2026. If you would like to use the service, please sign up prior to July 30. For capabilities similar to Q Business, explore Amazon Quick. Learn more.

Prerequisites for Amazon Q Business custom plugins

Before you configure your Amazon Q custom plugin, you must ensure you have the following:

  • A defined OpenAPI schema in JSON or YAML (maximum size is 1 MB). In order to maximize accuracy with Amazon Q Business custom plugin, follow the best practices for configuring OpenAPI schema definitions for custom plugins.

  • If authentication is required to connect Amazon Q to your third-party application, create OAuth authentication credentials. You need to store these authentication credentials in a Secrets Manager secret to connect your third-party application to Amazon Q.