Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Google Calendar (Preview)

• Created a Google Cloud Platform admin account and have created a Google Cloud project.

• Activated the Google Calendar API and Admin SDK API in your admin account.

• Created a service account and downloaded a JSON private key for your Google Calendar. For information about how to create and access your private key, see Create a service account key and Service account credentials on the Google Cloud website.

On the Google Cloud website:

• Copied your admin account email, your service account email, and your private key to use for authentication.

• Added the following Oauth scopes, using an admin role, for your user and the shared directories you want to index:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user.readonly

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly

  In your AWS account, make sure you have:

  • Created an Amazon Q Business application.

  • Created an Amazon Q Business retriever and added an index.

  • Created an IAM role for your data source and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the IAM role.

  • Stored your Google Calendar authentication credentials in an AWS Secrets Manager secret and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the secret.

• Created a Amazon Q Business application.

• Created a Amazon Q Business retriever and added an index.

• Created an IAM role for your data source and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the IAM role.

• Stored your Google Calendar authentication credentials in an AWS Secrets Manager secret and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the secret.

  Note

  If you’re a console user, you can create the IAM role and Secrets Manager secret as part of configuring your Amazon Q application on the console.