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Deleting documents uploaded in an Amazon Q Business application
To delete documents that have been directly uploaded to an application environment, you can
use the console or the BatchDeleteDocument API operation.
You can delete specific documents or all documents.
The following tabs provide a procedure for the AWS Management Console and code examples for the
AWS CLI.
- Console
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To delete specific directly uploaded
documents
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Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon Q Business
console.
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In Applications, select the name of the
application environment that your uploaded files belong to.
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From your applications page, from Data
sources, choose Uploaded
files.
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In Uploaded files, choose
Document name, and then select the
documents that you want to delete.
You can choose up to 10 files at a time.
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Choose Delete files.
You are returned to the service console while your
application environment is deleted. When the deletion process is complete,
the console displays a message confirming successful
deletion.
- AWS CLI
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To delete documents
aws qbusiness batch-delete-document \
--application-id application-id \
--index-id index-id \
--documents documents-to-delete \
--data-source-sync-id data-source-sync-id
