Amazon Q Business is no longer open to new customers. For capabilities similar to Q Business, explore Amazon Quick. [Learn more](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/qbusiness-availability-change.html).

# Amazon FSx (Windows) connector overview
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The following table gives an overview of the Amazon FSx (Windows) connector and its supported features.




- ****Security****
  - **Feature:** Authentication type / **Support:** Ad Server authentication
  - **Feature:** Authentication credentials / **Support:** +  Amazon FSx (Windows) username <br />+  Amazon FSx (Windows) password 
  - **Feature:** [Access Control List (ACL)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-authorization) crawling / **Support:** Yes. For more information, see [ACL crawling](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/fsx-user-management.html). 
  - **Feature:** [Identity crawling](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-identity-crawler) / **Support:** No
  - **Feature:** [VPC](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-vpc) / **Support:** Yes

- ****Crawl features****
  - **Feature:** Custom metadata / **Support:** Yes
  - **Feature:** [Field mappings](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-field-mappings) / **Support:** Yes. Supports both default and custom field mappings. For more information, see [Field mappings](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/fsx-field-mappings.html).
  - **Feature:** Filters / **Support:** Yes. The following filters are supported: +  Include/exclude by file name <br />+  Include/exclude by file type <br />+  Include/exclude by file path 
  - **Feature:** [Sync mode](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-sync-mode) / **Support:** Supports full and incremental sync.
  - **Feature:** [File types](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/doc-types.html) / **Support:** Supports all files supported by Amazon Q.



## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon Q. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query amazonq` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).