

# Using Amazon Quick automations
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Quick unifies AI agents for research, business insights, and automation into a single experience, helping business users make better decisions and act on them faster. Quick's automation capabilities handle everything from individual daily tasks to mission-critical enterprise processes, so teams can focus on higher-value work.

## Types of automations
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Quick offers two automation capabilities designed for different levels of scale and complexity:
+ **Amazon Quick Flows** empowers any business user to automate repetitive, routine tasks without needing technical expertise.
+ **Amazon Quick Automate** enables power users to orchestrate end-to-end business processes at enterprise scale. Amazon Quick Automate is not available for Free or Plus accounts created at [quick.aws.com](https://quick.aws.com).

## Choosing between Quick Flows and Quick Automate
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The right choice depends on the scope and complexity of what you need to automate.
+ **User and ownership model.** Choose Quick Flows for personal and team productivity tasks, run by individual users. Choose Quick Automate for centralized, enterprise-wide automations, especially those which need to run independent of an individual user.
+ **Workflow scope and duration.** Use Quick Flows for shorter-running tasks such as generating reports, drafting content, or responding to tickets. Use Quick Automate for long-running and high-volume processes such as managing loan applications, processing invoices, and validating new vendor compliance.
+ **Customization.** Quick Flows offers a simple but powerful set of no-code building blocks for your workflows. Quick Automate gives additional advanced options for power users such as control flow logic, case management, error handling, custom code, and more.

## Getting started
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+ To get started with Quick Flows, see [Using Amazon Quick Flows](using-amazon-quick-flows.md).
+ To get started with Quick Automate, see [Using Amazon Quick Automate](using-amazon-quick-automate.md).