We’re excited to announce new features that enable you to create more powerful apps while providing greater governance control using Amazon Q Apps. Amazon Q Apps is a feature within Amazon Q Business that lets you create AI-powered generative apps based on your organization’s data. These features enhance the app’s customization options and allow business users to tailor the solution to specific personal or organizational requirements. We’re introducing new governance features that allow admins to approve user-created apps with app validation and organize app libraries with customizable label categories that reflect your organization. App makers can now build data collection apps that can privately share apps and match input across multiple users. These additions are designed to improve how companies use generative AI in their daily operations, focusing on administrative controls and capabilities that unlock new use cases.
In this post, we examine how these features enhance the functionality of Amazon Q Apps. We explore new customization options and detail how these advances make Amazon Q Apps more accessible and applicable to a broader range of business customers. We focus on key features such as custom labels, verified apps, private sharing, and data collection apps (preview).
Recommend high-quality apps and customize labels for your app library
To help you discover published Amazon Q apps and address questions about the quality of user-generated apps, we launched the following services: Verified apps. Verified apps indicate that they have been approved by an administrator and are approved based on your company’s standards. Administrators can approve published Amazon Q apps by updating their status. default to Confirmed Directly in the Amazon Q Business console. Administrators can work closely with business stakeholders to determine criteria for validating apps based on their organization’s specific needs and policies. This admin-driven labeling feature is a reactive approach to approving published apps without restricting the publishing process for app creators.
When a user accesses the library, apps that are marked as: Confirmed By the administrator (as shown in the following screenshot). Additionally, verified apps automatically appear at the top of the app list within each category, making them easier to find. For more information about app validation, see Understanding and Managing Validated Amazon Q Apps.
The following functions are described below. custom labels. As an admin, you can create custom category labels to help app users organize and categorize apps in your library to reflect your team’s functions and organizational structure. This feature allows administrators to create and manage these labels in the Amazon Q Business console, and end users can use them when creating apps or discover related apps in their libraries. . Administrators can update category labels at any time to suit specific business needs depending on the use case. For example, an administrator managing a marketing organization’s Amazon Q Business app environment might add labels such as Product Marketing, PR, Advertising, and Sales to be available only to users on the marketing team (see screenshot below). ).
Marketing team users who create apps can use custom labels to put their apps into the appropriate categories. This makes it easier for other users to discover apps in your library based on your focus area (see screenshot below). For more information about custom labels, see Custom Labels for Amazon Q Apps.
Share the app with selected users
App creators can now create more granular control over their apps and foster collaboration within their organization with advanced sharing options. With private sharing, you can choose to share an app with selected individuals or with all app users (this was previously possible). No matter what scope you share, your app will still be visible in your library, but private sharing will only be visible to the app users it’s shared with. This means that the library will continue to be the place where users find apps they can access. This feature unlocks the ability to enable apps only for targeted users, reducing “noise” in your library from apps that aren’t necessarily relevant to all users. App authors can test updates before they’re ready to publish changes, ensuring that app iterations and improvements aren’t shared before the revised version is ready for wider release.
To share the app with specific users, authors can add each person using their full email address (see screenshot below). Users are added only after an email address match is found, ensuring that authors don’t unintentionally give access to someone who doesn’t have access to the Amazon Q Business app environment. For more information about private sharing, see Sharing Amazon Q Apps.
Develop new use cases with data collection
The last feature I will share in this post is data collection app (preview) is a new feature that lets you record input provided by other app users, creating new genres of Amazon Q apps such as team surveys and project retrospectives. This enhancement allows you to match data across multiple users in your organization, further enhancing the collaborative quality of Amazon Q Apps for a variety of business needs. These apps can also use generative AI to analyze the collected data, identify common themes, summarize ideas, and provide actionable insights.
After publishing a data collection app to the library, authors can invite colleagues to participate by sharing a unique link. To obtain a specific data collection submission, you must share a unique link. When an app user opens a data collection app from the library, new data collection is triggered using a unique shareable link with the specified owner. Data collection owners can manage controls to start new rounds, start and stop accepting new data submissions, and show or hide collected data. For more information about data collection apps, see Data Collection with Amazon Q Apps.
conclusion
In this post, we discussed how these new features in Amazon Q Apps for Amazon Q Business make generated AI customizable and manageable for enterprise users. From custom labels and verified apps to private sharing and data collection capabilities, these innovations enable organizations to create, manage, and share AI-powered apps tailored to their specific business needs while maintaining the right controls. It will be.
For more information, see Create your own Amazon Q app.
About the author
tiffany myers She is a Product Manager at AWS and leads the introduction of new features while maintaining simplicity for Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q Apps, drawing inspiration from the adaptive intelligence of nature’s amphibians to help customers improve their business through generative AI. We support the transformation and evolution of
